Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
EPICURUSHe who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
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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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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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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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