Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us,... - Epicurus
"Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not."
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
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