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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If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.Epicurus
Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not only for what life has in happiness to both young and old, but also for one must be careful in live honestly as well as die honestly.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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