If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
EPICURUSFreedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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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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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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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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