The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUSDeath, 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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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
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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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All 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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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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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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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