Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old. For no one is either too young or too old for the health of the soul.
Accustom thyself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply sentience, and death is the privation of all sentience. A right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an illimitable time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality.
When we say that pleasure is the end and aim, we do not mean the pleasures of the prodigal or the pleasures of sensuality. We mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul. It is not an unbroken succession of drinking bouts and of revelry that produce a pleasant life, but sober reasoning.