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• Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure

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  Worry, Easy, Endure

  Epicurus, Brad Inwood, Lloyd P. Gerson “The Epicurus Reader”, Hackett Publishing

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• We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.

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• The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.

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  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

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  Wise, Men, Reason

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• To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

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  Lions, Drink

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• Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

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  Men, Charity, Littles

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• Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

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  Littles, Sufficiency, Persons

  Epicurus (1963). “The philosophy of Epicurus: letters, doctrines, and parallel passages from Lucretius”

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

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  Men, Mad, Action

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

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  Where You Are, Afraid Of Death

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• There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.

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  Men, Justice, May

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• I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

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  Sake, Pleasure, Spit

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• Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

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  Atheist, Omnipotence, If There Is A God

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• The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

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  Suffering, Philosopher, Empty

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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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  What If, Desire, Happens

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• Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

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  Justice, Three, Fortitude

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• All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

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  Philosophy, Love Is, Self

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• Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

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  Fear, Done, Causes

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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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  Impossible, Difficult, Have Confidence

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.

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  Men, Blessing, Ideas

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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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  Philosophical, Men, Justice

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• Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

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  Friendship, Beautiful, Wise

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• I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

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  Math, Mind, Has Beens

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• Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

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  Blessed, Thanks, Unnecessary

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• It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

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  Life, Happiness, Wisdom

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• We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.

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  Confusion, Opinion, Ends

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