Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

But the universe is infinite.

Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

Many friends are the key to happiness