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Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Epicurus
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
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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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It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still gives some credence to myths. So without the study of nature there is no enjoyment of pure pleasure.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help
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Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.
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A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
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Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.
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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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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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Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
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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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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
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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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Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.
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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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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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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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