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.
EPICURUSDeath, 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.
More Epicurus Quotes
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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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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