Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor