Self-denial is the best riches.

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.