If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.