You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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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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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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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.
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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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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 folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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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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The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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