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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Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
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Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.
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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.
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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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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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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Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
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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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We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
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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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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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