Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

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

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.