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.
EPICURUSHe who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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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 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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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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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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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