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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

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
EPICURUS

Delay Old Philosophy Study Young
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
EPICURUS

Friendship Happiness Important Life
The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
EPICURUS

Crowd Force Time Withdraw Yourself
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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Desire Learning Please Remove Understand
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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Death Life Philosophy
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
EPICURUS

Freedom Fruit Greatness One Liner
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
If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.
EPICURUS

Life Nature Opinion People Philosophy Poor Rich Shape
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Abundance Joy Life Moderation Taste
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
EPICURUS

Deep Future Greet Inspirational
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
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
EPICURUS

Charity Donation Giving never Positive
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
EPICURUS

Abstract Compact Justice Men
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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Approve Be Yourself Crowd
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Enough Greedy Little Man Satisfaction

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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