Author

Epicurus

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“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
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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.”— Epicurus
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“The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.”— Epicurus
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“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”— Epicurus
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“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”— Epicurus
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“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”— Epicurus
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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.”— Epicurus
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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.”— Epicurus
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“There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.”— Epicurus
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“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
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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.”— Epicurus
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“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”— Epicurus
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“If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.”— Epicurus