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.
EPICURUSYou 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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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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We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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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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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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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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