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Don't fear god, Don't worry about death What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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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 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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The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.
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The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.
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Without confidence, there is no friendship.
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What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
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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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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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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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To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.
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But the universe is infinite.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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I was not I have been I am not I do not mind.
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Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.
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Being happy is knowing how to be content with little
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Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help
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