As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
To the stars through difficulties.
Man is a reasoning Animal.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.