It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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Why should I fear death If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do notEpicurus
So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter a.
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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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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
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