Letters From A Stoic: Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium (Illustrated. Newly revised text. Includes Image Gallery + Audio): All Three Volumes

Virtue is held too cheap by the man who counts his body too dear. We should cherish the body with the greatest care;

but we should also be prepared, when reason, self-respect, and duty demand the sacrifice, to deliver it even to the flames.

inasmuch as hope is merely the title of an uncertain blessing: I

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

"Contented poverty is an honourable estate."

Everywhere means nowhere.

presently that brow of yours will be smoothed

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.

There is an element of self-seeking even in our sorrow.