Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Be harsh with yourself at times.

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

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.