Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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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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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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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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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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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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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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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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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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