The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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