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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.

Epicurus

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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Desire Learning Please Remove Understand
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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Awareness Conscious Death Existence Fear Life Pleasure Sensation
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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Concern Death Existence Life
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Abstract Compact Justice Men
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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Crowd Force Time Withdraw Yourself
Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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Healing Man Philosophy Suffering Vain Word
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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Desire Hope Inspirational Minimalism Remember Spoil
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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Easy Extend Ideal Infinite Limitation Nature Philosophy Requirement Wealth
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
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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Approve Be Yourself Crowd
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Delay Old Philosophy Study Young
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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Life Nature Opinion People Philosophy Poor Rich Shape

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