Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

To rule yourself is the ultimate power

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

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

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-