Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
EPICURUSWhen you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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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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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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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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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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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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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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