Where I Am Death Is Not, Where

Whatsoever Causes No Annoyance When It Is Present, Causes Only A Groundless Pain In The Expectation. Death, Therefore, The Most Awful Of Evils, Is Nothing To Us, Seeing That, When We Are, Death Is Not Come, And, When Death Is Come, We Are Not. It Is Nothing, Then, Either To The Living Or To The Dead, For With The Living It Is Not And The Dead Exist No Longer.

Pleasure Is The First Good. It Is The Beginning Of Every Choice And Every Aversion. It Is The Absence Of Pain In The Body And Of Troubles In The Soul.

Why Are You Afraid Of Death? Where You Are, Death Is Not. Where Death Is, You Are Not. What Is It That You Fear.

The Wealth Required By Nature Is Limited And Is Easy To Procure; But The Wealth Required By Vain Ideals Extends To Infinity.

The Noble Soul Occupies Itself With Wisdom And Friendship.