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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

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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.
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What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
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The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.
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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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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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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 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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Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
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Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.
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He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .
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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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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 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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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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Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.
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