"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."
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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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"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
-Groucho Marx
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
-Andy Warhol
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