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.
EPICURUSDeath 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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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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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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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 art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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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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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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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
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