You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
EPICURUSBe moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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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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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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