You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.