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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.

Epicurus

The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
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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Couch Fear Freedom Gold Inspirational Rich Table Trouble
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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Against City Concern Death Ill Live Men Possible Security Wall
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
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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Crowd Force Time Withdraw Yourself
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
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
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
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Deep Disturb Himself Mind Peace
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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Absence Happiness Posses Present Pursue
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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