You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

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.

The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.