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Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.
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When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.
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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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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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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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Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.
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A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
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The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.
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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 guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.
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Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.
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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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The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
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Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
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I was not I have been I am not I do not mind.
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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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Without confidence, there is no friendship.
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Necessity is an evil but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.
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Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.
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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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