Any Man Who Does Not Think That

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 Begin Every Act Of Choice And Avoidance From Pleasure, And It Is To Pleasure That We Return Using Our Experience Of Pleasure As The Criterion Of Every Good Thing.

I Have Never Wished To Cater To The Crowd; For What I Know They Do Not Approve, And What They Approve I Do Not Know.

Justice Is Never Anything In Itself, But In The Dealings Of Men With One Another In Any Place Whatever And At Any Time. It Is A Kind Of Compact Not To Harm Or Be Harmed.

The Summit Of Pleasure Is The Elimination Of All That Gives Pain.