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.
EPICURUSWhen you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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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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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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You 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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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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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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