Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.