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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

Epicurus

When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Care Death Existence One Liner
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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Absence Death Element Sensation
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Delay Old Philosophy Study Young
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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Couch Fear Freedom Gold Inspirational Rich Table Trouble
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man 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
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
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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Death Easy Endurance Fear God Terrible Worry
If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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Life Nature Opinion People Philosophy Poor Rich Shape
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
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Approve Be Yourself Crowd
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
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Abstract Compact Justice Men

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