The Things You Really Need

Launch Your Boat, Blessed Youth, And Flee At Full Speed From Every Form Of Culture.

The Wealth Required By Nature Is Limited And Is Easy To Procure; But The Wealth Required By Vain Ideals Extends To Infinity.

Why Are You Afraid Of Death? Where You Are, Death Is Not. Where Death Is, You Are Not. What Is It That You Fear.

Do Not Spoil What You Have By Desiring What You Have Not.

When We Say That Pleasure Is The End, We Do Not Mean The Pleasure Of The Profligate Or That Which Depends On Physical Enjoyment--as Some Think Who Do Not Understand Our Teachings, Disagree With Them, Or Give Them An Evil Interpretation--but By Pleasure We Mean The State Wherein The Body Is Free From Pain And The Mind From Anxiety.