Epicurus - From the Desire category:
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have was once among the things only hoped for. (Epicurus)
Epicurus - From the Difficulty category:
The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. (Epicurus)
Epicurus - From the Friendship category:
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. (Epicurus)
Epicurus - From the Love category:
Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind. (Epicurus)
Epicurus - From the Pleasure category:
I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them. (Epicurus)
Epicurus - From the Wisdom category:
Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life, far the greatest is the possession of friendship. (Epicurus)
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