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

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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help
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Without confidence, there is no friendship.
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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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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 magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.
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I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
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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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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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The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.
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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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Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.
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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 guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.
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When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.
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All sensations are true pleasure is our natural goal.
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We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary.
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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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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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