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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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Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.
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No pleasure is evil in itself but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.
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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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Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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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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I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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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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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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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears its course lies wholly toward the future.
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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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Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
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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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Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.
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Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.
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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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Without confidence, there is no friendship.
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