The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
EPICURUSAll friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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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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