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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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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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The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
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There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.
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A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
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Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
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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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Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.
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But the universe is infinite.
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Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.
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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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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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Don't fear god, Don't worry about death What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure
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Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.
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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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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.
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There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.
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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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