The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUSTo eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
More Epicurus Quotes
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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
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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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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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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.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
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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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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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