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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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Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
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The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.
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Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.
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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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He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.
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What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
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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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Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.
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Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken, and that causes it to sway.
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But the universe is infinite.
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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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Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
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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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Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.
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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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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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There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.
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Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.
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