Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor
A person's life is what their thoughts make it.
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.