Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; re... - 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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"Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering."
"If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires."
"He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed."
"Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not."
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