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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.
Epicurus
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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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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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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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The things you really need are few and easy to come by but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.
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To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.
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There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.
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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 summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
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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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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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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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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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