“How much better it is to have many brothers than it is to have a lot of money. For money stirs up plots among one’s neighbors, whereas brothers protect against the plotters.”

— Musonius Rufus, Fragment 15

(Cora Lutz, Musonius Rufus: “The Roman Socrates,” Yale Classical Studies 10 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1947), pp. 3-147.) Taken from The Stoics Reader, Hackett, 2008. Brad Inwood and Lloyd P. Gerson, trans. P. 184