Work And Love These Are The Basics;

That Fear First Created The Gods Is Perhaps As True As Anything So Brief Could Be On So Great A Subject.

History Is A Pack Of Lies About Events That Never Happened Told By People Who Weren't There.

A String Of Excited, Fugitive, Miscellaneous Pleasures Is Not Happiness; Happiness Resides In Imaginative Reflection And Judgment, When The Picture Of One's Life, Or Of Human Life, As It Truly Has Been Or Is, Satisfies The Will, And Is Gladly Accepted.

Emotion Is Primarily About Nothing And Much Of It Remains About Nothing To The End.

... Even If Lucretius Was Wrong, And The Soul Is Immortal, It Is Nevertheless Steadily Changing Its Interests And Its Possessions.our Lives Are Mortal If Our Soul Is Not; And The Sentiment Which Reconciled Lucretius To Death Is As Much Needed If We Are To Face Many Deaths, As If We Are To Face Only One.