A Wise Man Is A Greater Asset

First Theory . There Is No Providence At All For Anything In The Universe; All Parts Of The Universe, The Heavens And What They Contain, Owe Their Origin To Accident And Chance; There Exists No Being That Rules And Governs Them Or Provides For Them. This Is The Theory Of Epicurus.

Truth Does Not Become More True By Virtue Of The Fact That The Entire World Agrees With It, Nor Less So Even If The Whole World Disagrees With It.

For It Is Said, "you Shall Strengthen The Stranger And The Dweller In Your Midst And Live With Him," That Is To Say, Strengthen Him Until He Needs No Longer Fall Upon The Mercy Of The Community Or Be In Need.

One Should See The World, And See Himself As A Scale With An Equal Balance Of Good And Evil. When He Does One Good Deed The Scale Is Tipped To The Good - He And The World Is Saved. When He Does One Evil Deed The Scale Is Tipped To The Bad - He And The World Is Destroyed.

Even The Existence Of This Corporeal Element, Low As It In Reality Is, Because It Is The Source Of Death And All Evils, Is Likewise Good For The Permanence Of The Universe And The Continuation Of The Order Of Things, So That One Thing Departs And The Other Succeeds.