Nothing to fear in God. Nothing to feel in Death. Good can be obtained. Evil can be endured.

More from Epicurus

• It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
• Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
• Accept loss forever
• A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. Essays, "Character," 1844