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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

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. - Epicurus

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. - Epicurus

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. - Epicurus

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. - Epicurus

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. - Epicurus

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. - Epicurus

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. - Epicurus

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed. - Epicurus

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. - Epicurus

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome. - Epicurus

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