When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
EPICURUSIt 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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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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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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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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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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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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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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.
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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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