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

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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears its course lies wholly toward the future.
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Without confidence, there is no friendship.
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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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There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
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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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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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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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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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Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.
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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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