A Strict Belief In Fate Is The

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 Misfortune Of The Wise Is Better Than The Prosperity Of The Fool.

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.

We Cannot Live Pleasantly Without Living Wisely And Nobly And Righteously.

Death Is Meaningless To The Living Because They Are Living, And Meaningless To The Dead… Because They Are Dead.