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Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

Epicurus

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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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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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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
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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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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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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 summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
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But the universe is infinite.
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Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
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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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What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.
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Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.
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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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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
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There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.
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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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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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