We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
EPICURUSDeath, 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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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
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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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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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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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