A Strict Belief In Fate Is The

Accustom Yourself To Believe That Death Is Nothing To Us, For Good And Evil Imply Awareness, And Death Is The Privation Of All Awareness; Therefore A Right Understanding That Death Is Nothing To Us Makes The Mortality Of Life Enjoyable, Not By Adding To Life An Unlimited Time, But By Taking Away The Yearning After Immortality. For Life Has No Terror; For Those Who Thoroughly Apprehend That There Are No Terrors For Them In Ceasing To Live.

The Honor Paid To A Wise Man Is A Great Good For Those Who Honor Him.

Of All The Things Which Wisdom Provides To Make Us Entirely Happy, Much The Greatest Is The Possession Of Friendship.

I Never Desired To Please The Rabble. What Pleased Them, I Did Not Learn; And What I Knew Was Far Removed From Their Understanding.

The Wise Man Who Has Become Accustomed To Necessities Knows Better How To Share With Others Than How To Take From Them, So Great A Treasure Of Self-sufficiency Has He Found.