The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
EPICURUSEmpty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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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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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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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.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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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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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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Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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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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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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