All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
EPICURUSFreedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.
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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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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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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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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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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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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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