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

In every good man a God doth dwell.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.