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Epicurus: '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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Epicurus: 'Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.'

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Epicurus: 'We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.'

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Epicurus: 'There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.'

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Epicurus: 'It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.'

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Epicurus: 'A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.'

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Epicurus: 'If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.'

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Epicurus: 'Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.'

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Epicurus: '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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Epicurus: 'It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.'

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Epicurus: '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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Epicurus: 'The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.'

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Epicurus: 'If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.'

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Epicurus: 'The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.'

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Epicurus: 'Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.'

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Epicurus: 'It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.'

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Epicurus: 'Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.'

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Epicurus: '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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Epicurus: '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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Epictetus: 'Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.'

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