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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

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Drink Eat Friendship Funny Lion Wolf
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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Absence Happiness Posses Present Pursue
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
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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Drink Eat Look
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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Approve Be Yourself Crowd
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
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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God Himself Man Obtain Power Pray
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Art Die Life Live
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Argument Empty Human Philosophy Relieve Suffering
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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Desire Friendship Help Need Start
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
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
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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Confidence Friendship Help Knowledge

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

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