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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.

Epicurus

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
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Constant Evil God Human Listen Men Perish Prayer
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
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Fear Fools Future Gratitude Life
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
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Argument Empty Human Philosophy Relieve Suffering
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Delay Old Philosophy Study Young
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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Course Interest Life Man Misfortune Reason Seldom Wise
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
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
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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Awareness Conscious Death Existence Fear Life Pleasure Sensation
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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Crowd Force Time Withdraw Yourself
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Estate Honor One Liner Poverty
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Art Die Life Live
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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