The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUSThe wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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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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