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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.

Epicurus

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EPICURUS

Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction
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.
EPICURUS

Action Attain Direction Exercise Happiness Ourselves Present
Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
EPICURUS

Death Easy Endurance Fear God Terrible Worry
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.
EPICURUS

Approve Be Yourself Crowd
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
EPICURUS

Fear Fools Future Gratitude Life
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
EPICURUS

Confidence Friendship Help Knowledge
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
EPICURUS

Drink Eat Look
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.
EPICURUS

Awful Death Philosophy Wisdom
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
EPICURUS

Easy Extend Ideal Infinite Limitation Nature Philosophy Requirement Wealth
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
EPICURUS

Against City Concern Death Ill Live Men Possible Security Wall
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.
EPICURUS

Constant Evil God Human Listen Men Perish Prayer
To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
EPICURUS

Drink Eat Friendship Funny Lion Wolf
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
EPICURUS

Delay Old Philosophy Study Young
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
EPICURUS

Consequence Freedom Sufficient
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
EPICURUS

Abstract Compact Justice Men
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.
EPICURUS

Couch Fear Freedom Gold Inspirational Rich Table Trouble

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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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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