When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
EPICURUSHe who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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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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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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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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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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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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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.
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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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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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