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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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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.
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Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.
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He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .
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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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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
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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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears its course lies wholly toward the future.
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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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In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
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When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.
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Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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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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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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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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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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If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
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