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"As true virtues are merely habits, I dare say that the truly virtuos are those fortunate people who practice virtue without any effort at all"

"Death is a monster that chases the rapt spectator from the theater before the play he is watching with infinite interest has ended. This alone is reason enough to despise it"

"The happiest man is he who best understands the art of finding happiness without letting it encroach upon is duties; and the an happiest is he who has chosen a way of life in which he finds himself with the sad obligation to plan every day, from morning till night"

"Nothing is more precious to the thinking man than life itself; yet in spite of this, the greatest voluptuary is he who best practices the difficult art of making it pass quickly"