If You Wish To Make Pythocles Rich,

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.

He Who Says Either That The Time For Philosophy Has Not Yet Come Or That It Has Passed Is Like Someone Who Says That The Time For Happiness Has Not Yet Come Or That It Has Passed.

We Should Look For Someone To Eat And Drink With Before Looking For Something To Eat And Drink.

All Other Love Is Extinguished By Self-love; Beneficence, Humanity, Justice, Philosophy, Sink Under It.

Let No One Be Slow To Seek Wisdom When He Is Young Nor Weary In The Search Of It When He Has Grown Old. For No Age Is Too Early Or Too Late For The Health Of The Soul.