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.
EPICURUSFreedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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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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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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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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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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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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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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