I Never Desired To Please The Rabble.

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.

Thanks Be To Blessed Nature That She Has Made What Is Necessary Easy To Obtain, And What Is Not Easy Unnecessary.

Death Is Meaningless To The Living Because They Are Living, And Meaningless To The Dead… Because They Are Dead.

He Who Understands The Limits Of Life Knows That It Is Easy To Obtain That Which Removes The Pain Of Want And Makes The Whole Of Life Complete And Perfect. Thus He Has No Longer Any Need Of Things Which Involve Struggle.

The Mind That Is Much Elevated And Insolent With Prosperity, And Cast Down With Adversity, Is Generally Abject And Base.