Principal Doctrine 1

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Principal Doctrine 1

I "The blessed and immortal nature knows no trouble itself nor causes trouble to any other, so that it is never constrained by anger or favour. For all such things exist only in the weak." (Epicurus, Principal Doctrine 1)

Translated by Cyril Bailey (1926)

Le Bonheur de Vivre by Henri Matisse (1906)

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