Epicurus quotes - Page : 5

" Those who were best able to provide themselves with the means of security against their neighbors, being thus in possession of the surest guarantee, passed the most agreeable life in each other's society; and their enjoyment of the fullest intimacy was such that, if one of them died before his time, the survivors did not mourn his death as if it called for sympathy. (40) " # Death and Dying # Friends and Friendship # Life and Living

" We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing. " # Thoughts and Thinking # Choice # Experience

" Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. " # Death and Dying