Death 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.
EPICURUSNot what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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