No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
Man is a reasoning Animal.
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?