A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs... Epicurus
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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
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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
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Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. Epicurus
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. Epicurus
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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. Epicurus, "Letter to Menoeceus", 124-125
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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. Epicurus
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The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully. Epicurus
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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 only hoped for. Epicurus
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He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others. Epicurus
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The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epicurus
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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. Epicurus
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. Epicurus
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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. Epicurus
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epicurus
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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 only hoped for. Epicurus
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