Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
EPICURUSDeath is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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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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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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