Stoic Virtue

If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

The limit of happiness is the presence of God, which completely fills the whole soul with his whole incorporeal and eternal light.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Regardless of our color, race and religion, we are brothers.

He who is brave is free.

The First, then, should be compared to light, the next [Spirit or Intellect] to the sun, and the third [soul] to the celestial body of the moon, which gets its light from the sun.

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Self-knowledge reveals to the soul that its natural motion is not, if uninterrupted, in a straight line, but circular, as around some inner object, about a center, the point to which it owes its origin.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

The First, then, should be compared to light, the next [Spirit or Intellect] to the sun, and the third [soul] to the celestial body of the moon, which gets its light from the sun.