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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

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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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Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the he...more

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The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind those of the past and future as well.

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The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

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We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions...more

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Don't fear the gods,Don't worry about death;What is good is easy to get, andWhat is terrible is easy to endure.