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Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
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Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.
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Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.
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Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
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Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
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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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Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.
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Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
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The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
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Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
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The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.
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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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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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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 nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
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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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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
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A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
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