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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Epicurus
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Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.
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We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary.
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The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.
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The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
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Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.
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I have never wished to cater to the crowd for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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