It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confidence of their help.
¶ The Vatican Sayings
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Epicurus (341-270 BC) Greek philosopher
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
¶ The Vatican Sayings
Your anxiety is directly proportional to your forgetfulness of nature, for you bring on yourself unlimited fears and desires.
¶ Fragment
The impious one is not the one who takes away the gods of the masses, but rather the one who imposes the ideas of the masses on the gods.
¶ Letter to Menoeceus
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