What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Do everything like someone is gazing at you.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.