As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

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

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

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.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.