There Is Nothing Terrible In Life For

Accustom Yourself To Believe That Death Is Nothing To Us, For Good And Evil Imply Awareness, And Death Is The Privation Of All Awareness; Therefore A Right Understanding That Death Is Nothing To Us Makes The Mortality Of Life Enjoyable, Not By Adding To Life An Unlimited Time, But By Taking Away The Yearning After Immortality. For Life Has No Terror; For Those Who Thoroughly Apprehend That There Are No Terrors For Them In Ceasing To Live.

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.

The Time When Most Of You Should Withdraw Into Yourself Is When You Are Forced To Be In A Crowd.

As If They Were Our Own Handiwork We Place A High Value On Our Characters.

It Is Not So Much Our Friends' Help That Helps Us, As The Confidence Of Their Help.