Without Confidence, There Is No Friendship.

The Fool, With All His Other Faults, Has This Also, He Is Always Getting Ready To Live.

It Is Impossible To Live A Pleasant Life Without Living Wisely And Honorably And Justly, And It Is Impossible To Live Wisely And Honorably And Justly Without Living Pleasantly. Whenever Any One Of These Is Lacking, When, For Instance, The Man Is Not Able To Live Wisely, Though He Lives Honorably And Justly, It Is Impossible For Him To Live A Pleasant Life.

We Cannot Live Pleasantly Without Living Wisely And Nobly And Righteously.

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?