The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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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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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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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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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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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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