Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
EPICURUSFreedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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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.
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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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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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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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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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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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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.
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