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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- The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
- You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
- It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
- Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
- 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.