The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUSHe who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
More Epicurus Quotes
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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 not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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