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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.

Epicurus

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
EPICURUS

Declutter Desire Money Rich
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
EPICURUS

Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
EPICURUS

Confidence Friendship Help Knowledge
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
EPICURUS

Friendship Happiness Important Life
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
EPICURUS

Art Die Life Live
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
EPICURUS

Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
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.
EPICURUS

Desire Hope Inspirational Minimalism Remember Spoil
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
EPICURUS

Fear Fools Future Gratitude Life
The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
EPICURUS

Crowd Force Time Withdraw Yourself
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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Anticipation Arrive Cause Death Fear Fools Man Pain
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
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.
EPICURUS

Awareness Conscious Death Existence Fear Life Pleasure Sensation

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