"Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing……" — Epicurus
"Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live."
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Epicurus
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136 Quotes by Epicurus
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It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.
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