The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUSThe fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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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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The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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