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Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.
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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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It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still gives some credence to myths. So without the study of nature there is no enjoyment of pure pleasure.
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No pleasure is evil in itself but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.
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Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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The things you really need are few and easy to come by but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.
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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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Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.
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Necessity is an evil but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.
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All other love is extinguished by self-love beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.
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There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.
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What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
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Being happy is knowing how to be content with little
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
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