It's wrong to criticize leaders of the church, even if the criticism is true.
The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.
One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.
If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month. But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.
It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!
Being broke is a very efficient educational agency.
Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms or panics, the one thing that strikes you most forcibly is how little either stock speculation or stock speculators today differ from yesterday. The game does not change and neither does human nature.
I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
The Stoic discipline of action, which is connected to the virtue of justice, says that we ought to treat others fairly and we should engage in social and political activity. This is further supported by the Stoic idea of cosmopolitanism, and by the famous "circles of concern" identified by Hierocles, who counseled that we should refer to other people as brothers and sisters, to constantly remind ourselves that we are members of the same human family.