Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

The main thing we were made for is to work with others.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

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

If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.

Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.