The Fool’s Life Is Empty Of Gratitude

Let No One Delay The Study Of Philosophy While Young Nor Weary Of It When Old.

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.

Vain Is The Word Of A Philosopher Which Does Not Heal Any Suffering Of Man. For Just As There Is No Profit In Medicine If It Does Not Expel The Diseases Of The Body, So There Is No Profit In Philosophy Either, If It Does Not Expel The Suffering Of The Mind.

The Greater The Difficulty The More Glory In Surmounting It, And The Loss Of False Joys Secures To Us A Much Better Possession Of Real Ones.

Of All The Gifts That Wise Providence Grants Us To Make Life Full And Happy, Friendship Is The Most Beautiful.