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A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.

— Zeno of Citium

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Happiness is a good flow of life.

No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.

All the good are friends of one another.

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.

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