"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."
-Epicurus
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"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."
-Epicurus
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"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."
-Epicurus
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"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
-Epicurus
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"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."
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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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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
-John Steinbeck
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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