He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.