Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together - they compose the world.

Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.