Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
EPICURUSIf the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.
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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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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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The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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