Stoic
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.
From Richard Mott Gummere, Moral Letters 2 (1917)
He who is brave is free.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong people.
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No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
For this reason, make life as a whole agreeable to yourself by banishing all worry about it.
I commend you and rejoice in the fact that you are persistent in your studies, and that, putting all else aside, you make it each day your endeavour to become a better man.