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• As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

  Epicurus

  Character, Personality, Handiwork

  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.

  Epicurus

  Writing, Ego, Enough

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

  Epicurus

  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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• Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

  Epicurus

  Evil, Injustice, Offense

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

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• I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

  Epicurus

  Attitude, Rome, Village

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• We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary.

  Epicurus

  Being Thankful, Easy, Made

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• The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.

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  Pain, Long, Mind

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• When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

  Epicurus

  Science, Appearance, Theory

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• Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

  Epicurus

  Fancy, Wealth, Natural

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

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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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  Death, Wall, Men

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

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• So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

  Epicurus

  Long, Age, Doe

  Letter to Menoeceus

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• Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.

  Epicurus

  Understanding, Add, Body

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• All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

  Epicurus

  Goal, Pleasure, Natural

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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 think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.

  Epicurus

  Pain, Teaching, Mean

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

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• Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.

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  Independent, Justice, Engagement

  Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.31, Lulu.com

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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 when death is present we no longer exist.

  Epicurus

  Death, Evil, Dying

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

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• Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

  Epicurus

  Death, Dying

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• The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

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  Soul, Void, Term

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

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• If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither all-powerful or benevolent. If they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?

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  Powerful, Evil, Doe

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• Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

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  Men, Natural Justice, Protect

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

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• Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken, and that causes it to sway.

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  Wind, Earthquakes, May

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• Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

  Epicurus

  Wisdom, Men, Justice

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