A Man Who Causes Fear Cannot Be

Let No One Be Slow To Seek Wisdom When He Is Young Nor Weary In The Search Of It When He Has Grown Old. For No Age Is Too Early Or Too Late For The Health Of The Soul.

The Magnitude Of Pleasure Reaches Its Limit In The Removal Of All Pain. When Such Pleasure Is Present, So Long As It Is Uninterrupted, There Is No Pain Either Of Body Or Of Mind Or Of Both Together.

My Garden Does Not Whet The Appetite; It Satisfies It. It Does Not Provoke Thirst Through Heedless Indulgence, But Slakes It By Proffering Its Natural Remedy. Amid Such Pleasures As These Have I Grown Old.

Death, The Most Dreaded Of Evils, Is Therefore Of No Concern To Us; For While We Exist Death Is Not Present, And When Death Is Present We No Longer Exist.

Of All The Gifts That Wise Providence Grants Us To Make Life Full And Happy, Friendship Is The Most Beautiful.