All Other Love Is Extinguished By Self-love;

Death, The Most Dreaded Of Evils, Is Therefore Of No Concern To Us; For While We Exist Death Is Not Present, And When Death Is Present We No Longer Exist.

There Is No Such Thing As Justice Or Injustice Among Those Beasts That Cannot Make Agreements Not To Injure Or Be Injured. This Is Also True Of Those Tribes That Are Unable Or Unwilling To Make Agreements Not To Injure Or Be Injured.

A Beneficent Person Is Like A Fountain Watering The Earth, And Spreading Fertility; It Is, Therefore, More Delightful To Give Than To Receive.

Justice... Is A Kind Of Compact Not To Harm Or Be Harmed.

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.