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Men, Believing In Myths, Will Always Fear Something Terrible, Everlasting Punishment As Certain Or Probable . . . Men Base All These Fears Not On Mature Opinions, But On Irrational Fancies, That They Are More Disturbed By Fear Of The Unknown Than By Facing Facts. Peace Of Mind Lies In Being Delivered From All These Fears.

The Gods Can Either Take Away Evil From The World And Will Not, Or, Being Willing To Do So, Cannot; Or They Neither Can Nor Will, Or Lastly, They Are Both Able And Willing. If They Have The Will To Remove Evil And Cannot, Then They Are Not Omnipotent. If They Can, But Will Not, Than They Are Not Benevolent. If They Are Neither Able Nor Willing, Then They Are Neither Omnipotent Nor Benevolent. Lastly, If They Are Both Able And Willing To Annihilate Evil, How Does It Exist?

A Free Life Cannot Acquire Many Possessions, Because This Is Not Easy To Do Without Servility To Mobs Or Monarchs.

Most Beautiful Is The Sight Of Those Near And Dear To Us When Our Original Kinship Makes Us Of One Mind.

We Have Been Born Once And There Can Be No Second Birth. Fir All Eternity We Shall No Longer Be. But You, Although You Are Not Master Of Tomorrow, Are Postponing Your Happiness.