Pleasure Is The Beginning And The End

Skillful Pilots Gain Their Reputation From Storms And Tempest.

So Death, The Most Terrifying Of Ills, Is Nothing To Us, Since So Long As We Exist, Death Is Not With Us; But When Death Comes, Then We Do Not Exist. It Does Not Then Concern Either The Living Or The Dead, Since For The Former It Is Not, And The Latter Are No More.

Men, Believing In Myths, Will Always Fear Something Terrible, Everlasting Punishment As Certain Or Probable . . . Men Base All These Fears Not On Mature Opinions, But On Irrational Fancies, That They Are More Disturbed By Fear Of The Unknown Than By Facing Facts. Peace Of Mind Lies In Being Delivered From All These Fears.

We Ought To Be Thankful To Nature For Having Made Those Things Which Are Necessary Easy To Be Discovered; While Other Things That Are Difficult To Be Known Are Not Necessary.

There Is No Such Thing As Justice In The Abstract; It Is Merely A Compact Between Men In Their Various Relations With Each Other, In Whatever Circumstances They May Be, That They Will Neither Injure Nor Be Injured.