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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Epicurus

When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
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.
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Absence Death Element Sensation
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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Crowd Force Time Withdraw Yourself
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Argument Empty Human Philosophy Relieve Suffering
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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Enough Little Minimalism One Liner Satisfaction
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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Awful Death Philosophy Wisdom
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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Concern Death Existence Life
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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Desire Hope Inspirational Minimalism Remember Spoil
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Care Death Existence One Liner
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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Course Interest Life Man Misfortune Reason Seldom Wise
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Abstract Compact Justice Men
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient

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