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

Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.