Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

People exist for one another.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.

A spider is proud when it has caught a fly; one man when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears, and another when he has taken Sarmatians. Are not these robbers, if you examine their opinions?