On Love:
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
On Death:
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
On Fear:
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
On Courage:
A man of courage is also full of faith.
On Learning:
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
On God:
For the Stoics do not say that a god is involved with the divisions in a particular liver or particular bird calls (which would be unbefitting, and unworthy of a god, and could not possibly happen) rather, the world was shaped from the beginning in