The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUSIf a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
More Epicurus Quotes
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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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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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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