Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
EPICURUSDeath 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 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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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