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In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

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So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.
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He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.
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Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
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