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• Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

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  Future, May, Remember

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

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• Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.

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  Believe, Evil, Enjoy Life

  Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

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  Men, Mad, Fear Of Death

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• What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

  Epicurus

  Men, Annihilation

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

  Epicurus

  Taken, Given

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

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  Suffering, Doe, Philosopher

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• It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still gives some credence to myths. So without the study of nature there is no enjoyment of pure pleasure.

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  Giving, Important, Matter

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• A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

  Epicurus

  God, Strong, Prayer

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• My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

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  Garden, Doe, Natural

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• Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

  Epicurus

  Meaningless

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• All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

  Epicurus

  Needs, Helping, Desirable

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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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  Science, Numbers, Space

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

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  Wise, Men, Honor

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

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• Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.

  Epicurus

  Gratitude, Virtue, Profit

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• Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

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  Pain, Taught, Pleasure

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• Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind.

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  Love, Beautiful, Sight

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• Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.

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  Numbers, Infinity, Atoms

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

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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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  Writing, Ego, Enough

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• But the universe is infinite.

  Epicurus

  Infinite, Universe

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

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  Evil, Continuing, Subjects

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

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• We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

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  Choices, Return, Pleasure

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• The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

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  Men, May, Guilty

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

  Epicurus

  Philosophy, Delay, Study

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

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• We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

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  Missing

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• Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

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  Happiness, Pleasure, Tranquil

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