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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

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He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.

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Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

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The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.

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As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

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In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confidence of their help.

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A world is a circumscribed portion of sky...it is a piece cut off from the infinite.

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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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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

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What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

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Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

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The just man is most free from disturbance, while the unjust is full of the utmost disturbance.

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

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Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

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Natural justice is a symbol or expression of usefulness, to prevent one person from harming or being harmed by another.

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The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

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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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For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

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Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.

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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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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

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Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are death is not come, and when death is come, we are not.

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There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number...are borne on far out into space.

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No pleasure is in itself evil, but the things which produce certain pleasures entail annoyances many times greater than the pleasures themselves.

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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.

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The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

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