Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
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.
What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.