He who eats my bread, does my will.

How soon will time cover all things.

If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.

Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'

If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.