Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

...the infallible man does not exist.