Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.