It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
EPICURUSMisfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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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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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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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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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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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