Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
EPICURUSThe noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
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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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