It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EPICURUSFoolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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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.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.
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If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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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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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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