There is no evil without its compensation.
The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.