The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
EPICURUSDeath 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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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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, 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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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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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