Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
EPICURUSYou 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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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.
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If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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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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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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