Here's something powerful that helps people face death without fear. Even those who thought pleasure was happiness and pain was misery — many of them still faced death bravely. How can death be terrible to someone who only values what comes naturally at the right time? To someone who cares only that his actions are good, whether they are many or few? To someone who doesn't care if he sees the world's sameness for many years or just a few?
To stir up a man to the contempt of death this among other things, is of good power and efficacy, that even they who esteemed pleasure to be happiness, and pain misery, did nevertheless many of them contemn death as much as any. And can death be terrible to him, to whom that only seems good, which in the ordinary course of nature is seasonable? to him, to whom, whether his actions be many or few, so they be all good, is all one; and who whether he behold the things of the world being always the same either for many years, or for few years only, is altogether indifferent?