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Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.
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The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.
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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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If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
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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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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
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Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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