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All other love is extinguished by self-love beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

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Epicurus
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Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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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 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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Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.
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Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.
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Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.
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Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
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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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Don't fear god, Don't worry about death What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure
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Being happy is knowing how to be content with little
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We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.
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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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Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.
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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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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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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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