The Things You Really Need Are Few

I Would Rather Be First In A Little Iberian Village Than Second In Rome.

Tranquil Pleasure Constitutes Human Beings' Supreme Good

We Must Consider Both The Ultimate End And All Clear Sensory Evidence, To Which We Refer Our Opinions; For Otherwise Everything Will Be Full Of Uncertainty And Confusion.

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.

Moreover, The Universe As A Whole Is Infinite, For Whatever Is Limited Has An Outermost Edge To Limit It, And Such An Edge Is Defined By Something Beyond. Since The Universe Has No Edge, It Has No Limit; And Since It Lacks A Limit, It Is Infinite And Unbounded. Moreover, The Universe Is Infinite Both In The Number Of Its Atoms And In The Extent Of Its Void.