I Was Not; I Have Been; I

Whatsoever Causes No Annoyance When It Is Present, Causes Only A Groundless Pain In The Expectation. Death, Therefore, The Most Awful Of Evils, Is Nothing To Us, Seeing That, When We Are, Death Is Not Come, And, When Death Is Come, We Are Not. It Is Nothing, Then, Either To The Living Or To The Dead, For With The Living It Is Not And The Dead Exist No Longer.

Remember That The Future Is Neither Ours Nor Wholly Not Ours, So That We May Neither Count On It As Sure To Come Nor Abandon Hope Of It As Certain Not To Be.

Death Is Nothing To Us: For After Our Bodies Have Been Dissolved By Death They Are Without Sensation, And That Which Lacks Sensation Is Nothing To Us. And Therefore A Right Understanding Of Death Makes Mortality Enjoyable, Not Because It Adds To An Infinite Span Of Time, But Because It Takes Away The Craving For Immortality.

Why Should I Fear Death? If I Am, Then Death Is Not. If Death Is, Then I Am Not. Why Should I Fear That Which Can Only Exist When I Do Not? Long Time Men Lay Oppressed With Slavish Fear. Religious Tyranny Did Domineer. At Length The Mighty One Of Greece Began To Assent The Liberty Of Man.

The Guilty Man May Escape, But He Cannot Be Sure Of Doing So.