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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.

Epicurus

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
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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Against City Concern Death Ill Live Men Possible Security Wall
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
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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Awful Death Philosophy Wisdom
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
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
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
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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Awareness Conscious Death Existence Fear Life Pleasure Sensation
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
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Abundance Joy Life Moderation Taste
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
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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Course Interest Life Man Misfortune Reason Seldom Wise
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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Desire Hope Inspirational Minimalism Remember Spoil
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
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

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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