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What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?
Epicurus
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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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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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A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
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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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I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
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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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The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.
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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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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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Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
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When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.
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Necessity is an evil but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.
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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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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 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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