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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 · Death

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Epicurus

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

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

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