The flesh receives as unlimited the limits of pleasure; and to provide it requires unlimited time. But the mind, intellectually grasping what the end and limit of the flesh is, and banishing the terrors of futurity, procures a complete and perfect life, and we have no longer any need of unlimited time.
— Epicurus Ancient

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Letter to Menoeceus

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3rd century BCE

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