A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.
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Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist
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Why should I fear death If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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