Epicurus (Founder of Epicureanism, lived 341-270 BCE) “Death is nothing to us; for that which has been dissolved lacks sensation; and that which lacks sensation is no concern to us.” From Epicurus’ Principle Doctrines (section ii), translated in Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Skeptics, edited by A. A. Long (University of California Press, 1986).