We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
EPICURUSVain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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