To a good man nothing that happens is evil.
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.