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Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.
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I was not I have been I am not I do not mind.
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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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My garden does not whet the appetite it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.
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Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.
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As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.
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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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Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.
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The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
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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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Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.
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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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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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To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.
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The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.
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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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There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.
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I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
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We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
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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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