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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Death 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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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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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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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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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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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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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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