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All sensations are true pleasure is our natural goal.

Epicurus

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The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.
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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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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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I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
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Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
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