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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

Epicurus

When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
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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Concern Friendship Immortal Mortal Wisdom
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Little Philosophy Satisfaction Science
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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Desire Hope Inspirational Minimalism Remember Spoil
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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Absence Death Element Sensation
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
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
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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Anticipation Arrive Cause Death Fear Fools Man Pain
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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Against City Concern Death Ill Live Men Possible Security Wall
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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Death Life Philosophy
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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God Himself Man Obtain Power Pray
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Fear Fools Future Gratitude Life
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Abstract Compact Justice Men
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

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