Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.

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

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.