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The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.
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Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and…
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In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
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It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.
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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
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Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it…
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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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Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.
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Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.
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Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will…
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The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.
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Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.
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The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.
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People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside…
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