Isabella’s Reviews > Letters from a Stoic > Status Update

- You’ve as many enemies as you’ve slaves
- Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness
- The fact that a person is living for nobody does not automatically mean that he is living for himself
- In our tears we are trying to find means of proving that we feel the loss. We are not being governed by our grief, but parading it

- A sound mind can neither be bought or borrowed
- I wasn’t born for one particular corner, the whole world’s my home country
- The thing you are looking for, the good life, is available everywhere

- Without wisdom, the mind is sick

- If you wish to be loved, love

- Nothing, however outstanding and however hopeful, will ever give me any pleasure if knowledge is to be for my benefit alone
- What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend! That is progress indeed, such a person will never be alone
- Associate with people who are likely to improve you
- Men learn as they teach
- Each of us is audience enough for the other
- Your merits should not be outward facing

- Why should I keep back anything when I’m with a friend?
- Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement
- The simple way of live need not be a crude one
- No one confines his unhappiness to the present

- To be everywhere is to be nowhere
- A plant which is frequently moved never grows strong
- You ask what is the proper limit to a person’s wealth? First, having what is essential, and second having what is enough