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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.

Epicurus

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
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
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
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
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
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
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 Easy Endurance Fear God Terrible Worry
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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Against City Concern Death Ill Live Men Possible Security Wall
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
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
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
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
If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
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Constant Evil God Human Listen Men Perish Prayer
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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Course Interest Life Man Misfortune Reason Seldom Wise

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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