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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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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, 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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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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