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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
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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Awful Death Philosophy Wisdom
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
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
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
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Argument Empty Human Philosophy Relieve Suffering
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Art Die Life Live
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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Confidence Friendship Help Knowledge
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
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
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
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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Absence Death Element Sensation

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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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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