The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUSLet no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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 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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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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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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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