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.
EPICURUSNot what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
EPICURUSIt is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
EPICURUSDeath does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
EPICURUSI was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
EPICURUSNothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EPICURUSDeath is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
EPICURUSNever say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
EPICURUSIt is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EPICURUSHe who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
EPICURUSThe art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
EPICURUSWe 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.
EPICURUSThe noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
EPICURUSIf you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
EPICURUSIt is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
EPICURUSPleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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