τὸ φρικωδέστατον οὖν τῶν κακῶν ὁ θάνατος οὐθὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς͵ ἐπειδήπερ ὅταν μὲν ἡμεῖς ὦμεν͵ ὁ θάνατος οὐ πάρεστιν͵ ὅταν δὲ ὁ θάνατος παρῇ͵ τόθ΄ ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἐσμέν.
So death, the most shudder-inducing of all evils, is nothing to us, in so much as when we are, death is not here, but when death is here, then we are not.
Epicurus, letter to Meoeceus.
So death, the most shudder-inducing of all evils, is nothing to us, in so much as when we are, death is not here, but when death is here, then we are not.
Epicurus, letter to Meoeceus.