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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Epicurus

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
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
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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Awful Death Philosophy Wisdom
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
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
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
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Action Attain Direction Exercise Happiness Ourselves Present
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Argument Empty Human Philosophy Relieve Suffering
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
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
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
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Art Die Life Live
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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Confidence Friendship Help Knowledge

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

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