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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

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
EPICURUS

Confidence Friendship Help Knowledge
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.
EPICURUS

Approve Be Yourself Crowd
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
EPICURUS

Desire Learning Please Remove Understand
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EPICURUS

Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
EPICURUS

Drink Eat Look
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
EPICURUS

Easy Extend Ideal Infinite Limitation Nature Philosophy Requirement Wealth
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
EPICURUS

Couch Fear Freedom Gold Inspirational Rich Table Trouble
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
EPICURUS

Desire Friendship Help Need Start
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
EPICURUS

Death Life Philosophy
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
EPICURUS

Art Die Life Live
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.
EPICURUS

Awareness Conscious Death Existence Fear Life Pleasure Sensation
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
EPICURUS

Charity Donation Giving never Positive
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.
EPICURUS

Desire Hope Inspirational Minimalism Remember Spoil
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Deep Future Greet Inspirational
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.
EPICURUS

Awful Death Philosophy Wisdom
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
EPICURUS

Estate Honor One Liner Poverty

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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