What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

To make a commencement requires a mental effort.

A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.