Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
EPICURUSIt is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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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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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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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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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 least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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