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"It is not by fearing that we avoid evil, but by avoiding evil that we are free from fear."

— Epicurus

Source not yet traced to a specific passage, so treat the exact wording as unverified. See disputed and misattributed quotes.

Not a Stoic. Epicurus is classed as Greco-Roman & Adjacent: Classical figures who shaped or argued with Stoicism — Socrates, Aristotle, Heraclitus, Cicero and others. Related, but not Stoic.

More quotes from Epicurus

• "Learn to think that death is nothing to us, for all good and all evil consists in sensation; and death is the privation of sensation."

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More from the Greco-Roman & Adjacent collection

• "He who has fewer desires is closer to the gods."
  — Socrates
• "Everything flows, nothing remains the same."
  — Heraclitus
• "The joy that one has in thinking and learning makes us think and learn even more."
  — Aristotle
• "The greatest good is knowledge, the greatest evil is ignorance."
  — Socrates

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