A Strict Belief In Fate

So Death, The Most Terrifying Of Ills, Is Nothing To Us, Since So Long As We Exist, Death Is Not With Us; But When Death Comes, Then We Do Not Exist. It Does Not Then Concern Either The Living Or The Dead, Since For The Former It Is Not, And The Latter Are No More.

Against Other Things It Is Possible To Obtain Security, But When It Comes To Death We Human Beings All Live In An Unwalled City.

To Eat And Drink Without A Friend Is To Devour Like The Lion And The Wolf.

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.

It Is Possible To Provide Security Against Other Ills, But As Far As Death Is Concerned, We Men Live In A City Without Walls.