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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.

Epicurus

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Drink Eat Friendship Funny Lion Wolf
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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Concern Death Existence Life
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
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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Anticipation Arrive Cause Death Fear Fools Man Pain
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
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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Absence Death Element Sensation
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
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Delay Old Philosophy Study Young
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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Confidence Friendship Help Knowledge
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Care Death Existence One Liner
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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Absence Happiness Posses Present Pursue
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
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Deep Disturb Himself Mind Peace

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