The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
EPICURUSDon’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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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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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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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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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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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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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
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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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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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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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