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The Art of Happiness
Epicurus
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 300 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Ancient Greek
- Pages
- Pages 250
He asked a friend to send a pot of cheese, so that he could feast whenever he liked. That was extravagance to the man whose name became a byword for it: a teacher who lived on bread and water in a garden outside Athens, and who took in women and slaves alongside free men at a time when nobody else would.
Accustom thyself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply sentience, and death is the privation of all sentience
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