Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

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.

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.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall - if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back.