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.
EPICURUSWe should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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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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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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