The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
EPICURUSWhen you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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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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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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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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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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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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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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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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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