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.
EPICURUSThe most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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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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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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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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If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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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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