Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.