Where I Am Death Is Not, Where

We Begin Every Act Of Choice And Avoidance From Pleasure, And It Is To Pleasure That We Return Using Our Experience Of Pleasure As The Criterion Of Every Good Thing.

If God Listened To The Prayers Of Men, All Men Would Quickly Have Perished: For They Are Forever Praying For Evil Against One Another.

We Must, Therefore, Pursue The Things That Make For Happiness, Seeing That When Happiness Is Present, We Have Everything; But When It Is Absent, We Do Everything To Possess It.

Death, The Most Dreaded Of Evils, Is Therefore Of No Concern To Us; For While We Exist Death Is Not Present, And When Death Is Present We No Longer Exist.

A Free Life Cannot Acquire Many Possessions, Because This Is Not Easy To Do Without Servility To Mobs Or Monarchs.