Be Moderate In Order To Taste The

For A Wrongdoer To Be Undetected Is Difficult; And For Him To Have Confidence That His Concealment Will Continue Is Impossible.

The Words Of That Philosopher Who Offers No Therapy For Human Suffering Are Empty And Vain.

A Strict Belief In Fate Is The Worst Of Slavery, Imposing Upon Our Necks An Everlasting Lord And Tyrant, Whom We Are To Stand In Awe Of Night And Day.

A Blessed And Indestructible Being Has No Trouble Himself And Brings No Trouble Upon Any Other Being; So He Is Free From Anger And Partiality, For All Such Things Imply Weakness.

When We Say That Pleasure Is The End, We Do Not Mean The Pleasure Of The Profligate Or That Which Depends On Physical Enjoyment--as Some Think Who Do Not Understand Our Teachings, Disagree With Them, Or Give Them An Evil Interpretation--but By Pleasure We Mean The State Wherein The Body Is Free From Pain And The Mind From Anxiety.