When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
EPICURUSNot what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
More Epicurus Quotes
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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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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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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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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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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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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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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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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