When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind, and consider that you have to do the business of a man; and that action is both beneficial and the end of your being.

Now departure from the world of men is nothing to fear, if gods exist: because they would not involve you in any harm. If they do not exist, or if they have no care for humankind, then what is life to me in a world devoid of gods, or devoid of providence? But they do exist, and they do care for humankind: and they have put it absolutely in man's power to avoid falling into the true kinds of harm.

People exist for one another.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good for both communities.

We are the other of the other

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?