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.
EPICURUSWhen you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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