This Is Why We Admire the Stoics – Quote 2

what we admire about the greatest of the Stoics—from Cato to Marcus Aurelius to Admiral Stockdale—was not their rank or their office. It was not even their eloquence or their fortitude. No, what made them truly great was their character. What made them great was how they treated people, how they stood on principle, how they commanded themselves first and foremost.