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.
EPICURUSAll friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
More Epicurus Quotes
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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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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are 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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The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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