The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.

It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

The only way to avoid becoming a metaphysician is to say nothing.

All they have to do is refuse to believe it means death. The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Avoiding ruin means stay out of jail. So, don’t do anything illegal.

Avoidance of boredom is the only worthy mode of action. Life otherwise is not worth living.)

The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.

The only way to win the next world war is to prevent it.

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

The best way to avoid danger is to be in a capacity to withstand it.