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When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is suppose...more

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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

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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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Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

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

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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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Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

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He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not ye...more

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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

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The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to ...more

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The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-su...more

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Accustom yourself to the belief that death is of no concern to us, since all good and evil lie in sensation and sensation ends with death. Therefore t...more

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27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of fi...more

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Death means nothing to us

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Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.