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.
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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We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining 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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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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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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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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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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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