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We Begin Every Act Of Choice And Avoidance From Pleasure, And It Is To Pleasure That We Return Using Our Experience Of Pleasure As The Criterion Of Every Good Thing.

The Term "incorporeal" Is Properly Applied Only To The Void, Which Cannot Act Or Be Acted On. Since The Soul Can Act And Be Acted Upon, It Is Corporeal.

The Flesh Believes That Pleasure Is Limitless And That It Requires Unlimited Time; But The Mind, Understanding The End And Limit Of The Flesh And Ridding Itself Of Fears Of The Future, Secures A Complete Life And Has No Longer Any Need For Unlimited Time.

My Garden Does Not Whet The Appetite; It Satisfies It. It Does Not Provoke Thirst Through Heedless Indulgence, But Slakes It By Proffering Its Natural Remedy. Amid Such Pleasures As These Have I Grown Old.

When Someone Admits One And Rejects Another Which Is Equally In Accordance With The Appearances, It Is Clear That He Has Quitted All Physical Explanation And Descended Into Myth.