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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.

Epicurus

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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Easy Extend Ideal Infinite Limitation Nature Philosophy Requirement Wealth
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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Awful Death Philosophy Wisdom
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Abundance Constitution Enjoyment Inspirational
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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Life Nature Opinion People Philosophy Poor Rich Shape
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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Confidence Friendship Help Knowledge
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.
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Desire Hope Inspirational Minimalism Remember Spoil
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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Concern Friendship Immortal Mortal Wisdom
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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Absence Death Element Sensation
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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Constant Evil God Human Listen Men Perish Prayer
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
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Approve Be Yourself Crowd
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
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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Adversity Challenge Courage Development Happiness Hard Time Relationship Survival
Death 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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Concern Death Existence Life
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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Death Easy Endurance Fear God Terrible Worry

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