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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Epicurus

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Abundance Constitution Enjoyment Inspirational
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
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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Crowd Force Time Withdraw Yourself
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
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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Friendship Happiness Important Life
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
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
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
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Action Attain Direction Exercise Happiness Ourselves Present
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
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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Constant Evil God Human Listen Men Perish Prayer
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
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
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

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