A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

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

Expediency often silences justice.

Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.

The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.