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.
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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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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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