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.
EPICURUSIt 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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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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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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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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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We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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