Misfortune Seldom Intrudes Upon The Wise Man;

A Free Life Cannot Acquire Many Possessions, Because This Is Not Easy To Do Without Servility To Mobs Or Monarchs.

It Is Impossible For Someone To Dispel His Fears About The Most Important Matters If He Doesn't Know The Nature Of The Universe But Still Gives Some Credence To Myths. So Without The Study Of Nature There Is No Enjoyment Of Pure Pleasure.

Why Should I Fear Death? If I Am, Then Death Is Not. If Death Is, Then I Am Not. Why Should I Fear That Which Can Only Exist When I Do Not? Long Time Men Lay Oppressed With Slavish Fear. Religious Tyranny Did Domineer. At Length The Mighty One Of Greece Began To Assent The Liberty Of Man.

Death Is Nothing To Us: For After Our Bodies Have Been Dissolved By Death They Are Without Sensation, And That Which Lacks Sensation Is Nothing To Us. And Therefore A Right Understanding Of Death Makes Mortality Enjoyable, Not Because It Adds To An Infinite Span Of Time, But Because It Takes Away The Craving For Immortality.

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.