Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
EpicurusĀ
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You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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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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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
EpicurusĀ
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
EpicurusĀ
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
EpicurusĀ
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
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