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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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Epíkouros
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Beneficence
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Philosophy
Humanity
Justice
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Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
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Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.
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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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The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.
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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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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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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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To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.
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I was not I have been I am not I do not mind.
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So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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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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Being happy is knowing how to be content with little
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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
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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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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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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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