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Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
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What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help
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When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.
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My garden does not whet the appetite it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.
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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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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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Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good
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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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A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
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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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I was not I have been I am not I do not mind.
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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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