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

Epicurus

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Drink Eat Friendship Funny Lion Wolf
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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Action Attain Direction Exercise Happiness Ourselves Present
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 most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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
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
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
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
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
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
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
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Care Death Existence One Liner
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
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Couch Fear Freedom Gold Inspirational Rich Table Trouble
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
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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Desire Learning Please Remove Understand
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Abundance Constitution Enjoyment Inspirational
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
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Art Die Life Live
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
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
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
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
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
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

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