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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...
Epicurus - [Life and Living]
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus - [Gratitude]
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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 - [Popularity]
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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.
Epicurus - [Desire]
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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus - [Happiness]
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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
Epicurus - [Happiness]
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.
Epicurus - [Death and Dying]
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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.
Epicurus - [Misfortunes]
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.
Epicurus - [Abundance]
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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus - [Friends and Friendship]
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Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
Epicurus - [Skill]
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Epicurus - [Death and Dying]
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The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Epicurus - [Masses]
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men
Epicurus - [Justice]
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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
Epicurus - [Friends and Friendship]
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