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.
EPICURUSThe fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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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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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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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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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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