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    May be an image of text that says 'Happy New Yeo XIV.(14) We have been born once and cannot be born a second time; for all eternity we shall no longer exist. But you, although you are not in control of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness. Life is wasted by delaying, and each one dies occupied. METRODORUS FLAMPSACUS Epicureanfriends.com'

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    ...we say pleasure is the foundation and fulfillment, the beginning and end (ἀρχὴν καὶ τέλος) of the blessed life.

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