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Thursday, June 4, 2009
"Live your life without attracting attention."
"Happiness and blessedness do not belong to abundance of riches or exalted position or offices or power, but to freedom from pain and gentleness of feeling and a state of mind that sets limits that are in accordance with nature." - Epicurus
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