When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
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Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
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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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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
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He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
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It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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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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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
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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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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
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