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Pyrrho wrote nothing. His student Timon of Phlius and later Sextus Empiricus preserved his radical teaching: that we should suspend judgment about all things, and in that suspension find peace.

Whoever wants to live well must consider these three questions: First, how are things by nature? Second, what attitude should we adopt towards them? Third, what will be the outcome for those who have this attitude?

As for things, they are all alike: without stability, without certainty, and undecidable. Therefore neither our sensations nor our opinions tell us truths or falsehoods.

For this reason we should not put our trust in them one bit, but we should be unopinionated, uncommitted, and unwavering, saying concerning each individual thing that it no more is than is not, or both is and is not, or neither is nor is not.

The outcome for those who adopt this attitude will be first speechlessness, and then freedom from disturbance.

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