"death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come,we are not."
— Epicurus

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
— Epicurus

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
— Epicurus (The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments (Great Books in Philosophy))