He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.