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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.

Epicurus

Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
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Death Easy Endurance Fear God Terrible Worry
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 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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Awareness Conscious Death Existence Fear Life Pleasure Sensation
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
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
Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Compact Harm Justice Kind
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Abundance Constitution Enjoyment Inspirational
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Care Death Existence One Liner
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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Argument Empty Human Philosophy Relieve Suffering
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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Charity Donation Giving never Positive
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 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
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Delay Old Philosophy Study Young
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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Friendship Happiness Important Life

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