Letters From A Stoic: Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium (Illustrated. Newly revised text. Includes Image Gallery + Audio): All Three Volumes
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Letters From A Stoic: Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium (Illustrated. Newly revised text. Includes Image Gallery + Audio): All Three Volumes
is hard to observe a mean; we must be chary of letting the fear of jealousy lead us into becoming objects of scorn, lest, when we choose not to stamp others down, we let them think that they can stamp us down. The power to inspire fear has caused many men to be in fear.
Evil can never grow so strong, and nobility of character can never be so plotted against, that the name of philosophy shall cease to be worshipful and sacred.
no shock of terror to the eye or to the ear. The other kind of evil comes, so to speak, in the form of a huge parade.
Do you ask what is the proper limit to wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary, and, second, to have what is enough.
presently that brow of yours will be smoothed
Friendship, accordingly, is always helpful, but love sometimes even does harm. Try to perfect yourself, if for no other reason, in order that you may learn how to love.
"Contented poverty is an honourable estate."
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go; for that reason we should not make the mind a bondsman to any one place.