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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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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.