We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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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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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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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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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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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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