A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
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Don't spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for.
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
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He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
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Eat, drink and be merry... For tommorrow we die.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
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The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little.
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Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need.
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Death, the most dreaded of all evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we ...
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When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment—as some thin...
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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