If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

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.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.