Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.