The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.