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"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."

— 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

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

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More from the Greco-Roman & Adjacent collection

• "The love of wisdom is the beginning of wisdom."
  — Socrates
• "Reflection should be applied as a remedy for the soul."
  — Cicero
• "If you seek the truth, be prepared for the unexpected."
  — Heraclitus
• "He who has fewer desires is closer to the gods."
  — Socrates

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