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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy ...  
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not h...  
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember tha...  
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not...  
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not lea...  
I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rom...  
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have peri...  
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away f...  
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet,than to ha...  
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the po...  
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and wel...  
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence o...   Friendship
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as d...   Death
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest...  
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.  
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.  
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, muc...  
Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much ...  
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torm...  
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.  
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.  
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.   History
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.  
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you ar...  
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a comp...  
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of th...  
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyda...