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 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.

Here’s how to live: Do nothing.

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.

The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

The only chance of life lies in giving up all hope of it.

Das einzige Mittel, den Irrtum zu vermeiden, ist die Unwissenheit.