For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man. But men fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue. Virtue offers the only security within humanity's reach.
False security is dangerous to family integrity.
An unexamined life is not worth living. All things conspire to a common good. It is in giving that we receive. Friends enter a dialog because they seek the truth. Our doubts and our question, our small truths and large ones are all forms of its drive toward clarity and truth.