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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.

Epicurus

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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Easy Extend Ideal Infinite Limitation Nature Philosophy Requirement Wealth
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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Absence Death Element Sensation
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
If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
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Constant Evil God Human Listen Men Perish Prayer
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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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Crowd Force Time Withdraw Yourself
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Care Death Existence One Liner
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
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
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Art Die Life Live
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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