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When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment—as some thin...
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Death, the most dreaded of all evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we ...
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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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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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The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...
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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.
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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need.
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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
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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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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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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.
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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.
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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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A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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