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Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.
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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 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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Without confidence, there is no friendship.
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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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He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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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Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.
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There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.
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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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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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Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good
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Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
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A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
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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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Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.
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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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