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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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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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Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

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

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Born: 341 BC
Died: 269 BC (aged 72)
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