Self-sufficiency Is The Greatest Of All Wealth

A Strict Belief In Fate Is The Worst Of Slavery, Imposing Upon Our Necks An Everlasting Lord And Tyrant, Whom We Are To Stand In Awe Of Night And Day.

Men Are So Thoughtless, Nay, So Mad, That Some, Through Fear Of Death, Force Themselves To Die.

Death Is Nothing To Us: For That Which Is Dissolved Is Without Sensation; And That Which Lacks Sensation Is Nothing To Us.

Moreover, The Universe As A Whole Is Infinite, For Whatever Is Limited Has An Outermost Edge To Limit It, And Such An Edge Is Defined By Something Beyond. Since The Universe Has No Edge, It Has No Limit; And Since It Lacks A Limit, It Is Infinite And Unbounded. Moreover, The Universe Is Infinite Both In The Number Of Its Atoms And In The Extent Of Its Void.

No Pleasure Is Evil In Itself; But The Means By Which Certain Pleasures Are Gained Bring Pains Many Times Greater Than The Pleasures.