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The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

Epicurus

The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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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Constant Evil God Human Listen Men Perish Prayer
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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Easy Extend Ideal Infinite Limitation Nature Philosophy Requirement Wealth
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
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.
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Desire Hope Inspirational Minimalism Remember Spoil
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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Course Interest Life Man Misfortune Reason Seldom Wise
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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Life Nature Opinion People Philosophy Poor Rich Shape
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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God Himself Man Obtain Power Pray
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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Desire Learning Please Remove Understand
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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Awareness Conscious Death Existence Fear Life Pleasure Sensation
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle

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