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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The man who is not virtuous can never be happy.Epicurus
Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life far the greatest is the possession of Friendship.
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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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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
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Why should I fear death If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not
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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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