The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUSHe who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
More Epicurus Quotes
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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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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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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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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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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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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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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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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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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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