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Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
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A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness.
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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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What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken, and that causes it to sway.
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