Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
EPICURUSDeath does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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 time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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 not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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