No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
Mercy often inflicts death.
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
Everything may happen.
There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.
No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
Unjust rule does not last forever.
It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.
There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.
Life is long if it is full.
The Germans, a race eager for war.
All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.
The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.