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Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.
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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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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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All other love is extinguished by self-love beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.
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Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our 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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Necessity is an evil but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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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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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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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A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness.
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Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
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If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
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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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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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