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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Epicurus
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Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.
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Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.
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