We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing …

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We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it. ✨ Epicurus (1993). The essential Epicurus: letters, principal doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments
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We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it. ✨ Epicurus (1993). The essential Epicurus: letters, principal doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments

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