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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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What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?
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The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.
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But the universe is infinite.
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears its course lies wholly toward the future.
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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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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.
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All other love is extinguished by self-love beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.
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Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
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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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Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
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Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.
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Without confidence, there is no friendship.
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The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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All sensations are true pleasure is our natural goal.
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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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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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