Serenity

• The purpose of life is pleasure. By pleasure, Epicurus did not mean luxury or excessive indulgence, but freedom from bodily pain and disturbance of the soul, through which a person attains tranquility.

• Death marks the end of both the body and the individual soul. Because sensation ends with death, death should not be feared.

• The gods exist in a state of perfect happiness and immortality, but they do not interfere in human affairs or punish human beings.

• The universe as a whole is boundless and eternal, although individual worlds may come into existence and eventually perish.

• Everything in nature is composed of atoms moving and interacting within empty space.

• Friendship, self-sufficiency, moderation, and freedom from unnecessary desires are essential to a happy life.

A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.

There is only one way to happiness, you have to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best,
Night, sleep, death and the stars