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.
EPICURUSHe who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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