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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

Epicurus

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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Concern Death Existence Life
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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Confidence Friendship Help Knowledge
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Abstract Compact Justice Men
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
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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Absence Happiness Posses Present Pursue
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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Drink Eat Look
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Abundance Constitution Enjoyment Inspirational
If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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Life Nature Opinion People Philosophy Poor Rich Shape
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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Friendship Happiness Important Life
Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
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Anticipation Arrive Cause Death Fear Fools Man Pain
Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
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Death Easy Endurance Fear God Terrible Worry
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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Adversity Challenge Courage Development Happiness Hard Time Relationship Survival
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Fear Fools Future Gratitude Life
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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Course Interest Life Man Misfortune Reason Seldom Wise
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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Against City Concern Death Ill Live Men Possible Security Wall
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Delay Old Philosophy Study Young
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
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Approve Be Yourself Crowd
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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God Himself Man Obtain Power Pray
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

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