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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help
Epicurus
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Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.
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The term incorporeal is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.
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Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.
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The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.
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Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
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Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.
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Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.
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Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.
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All other love is extinguished by self-love beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.
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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 summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
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The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.
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Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
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Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
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The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.
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