Stoic

"Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder."

"This that I am, whatever it be, is mere flesh and a little breathe and the ruling Reason"

"Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind."

"In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles."

"Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called , i.e. nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection."