Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
EPICURUSFoolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
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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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The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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