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Quote of Epicurus - Death does not concern us, because...


Biography - Epicurus:

Greek philosopher *Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: -342 - Died: -270
Period:
3rd century BC
4th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Der Tod geht uns eigentlich nichts an. Denn solange wir sind, ist er nicht, und wenn er ist, sind wir nicht mehr.

French
La mort n'est rien pour nous, puisque quand nous sommes, la mort n'est pas là et, quand la mort est là, nous ne sommes plus.




See also 

See also...



Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.




Quotes for: death


Quotes

Quotes about death:


As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.





The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.





Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.





A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.





Neither the sun nor death can be looked at without winking.





Sleep and Death are twin brothers.
Homer - Iliad / 











Quotes for: to be


Quotes

Quotes for "to be" or about being:


The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.





To be, or not to be, that is the question.





Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.





Become who you are!





I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.





I think, therefore I am.











Quotes

Epicurus also said...


Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.





It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.





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





We must then meditate on the things that make our happiness, seeing that when that is with us we have all, but when it is absent we do all to win it.





Pleasure is the beginning and end of the blessed life.





Babies and animals are the mirrors of nature.












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