When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
EPICURUSIt is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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