The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUSPleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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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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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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