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Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.
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I have never wished to cater to the crowd for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.
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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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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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Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.
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Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
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Without confidence, there is no friendship.
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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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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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But the universe is infinite.
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Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
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Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.
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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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A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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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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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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