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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.
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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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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
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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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He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .
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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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I was not I have been I am not I do not mind.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
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There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.
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Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.
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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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All sensations are true pleasure is our natural goal.
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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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Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.
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The term incorporeal is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.
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Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
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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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