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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.

Epicurus

When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
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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Concern Friendship Immortal Mortal Wisdom
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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Awareness Conscious Death Existence Fear Life Pleasure Sensation
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
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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Course Interest Life Man Misfortune Reason Seldom Wise
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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Death Life Philosophy
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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Drink Eat Look
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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Action Attain Direction Exercise Happiness Ourselves Present
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
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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Absence Happiness Posses Present Pursue
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Art Die Life Live
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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God Himself Man Obtain Power Pray
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
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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Anticipation Arrive Cause Death Fear Fools Man Pain
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

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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