The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUSYou don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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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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