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Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
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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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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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But the universe is infinite.
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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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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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The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
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Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
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Necessity is an evil but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
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When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.
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Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
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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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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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A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
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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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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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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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