Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
EPICURUSDeath is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
More Epicurus Quotes
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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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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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
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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 is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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