It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
EPICURUSDo not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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