The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUSHe who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
More Epicurus Quotes
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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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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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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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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