Each day provides its own gifts.

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good.

Everything is mere opinion.

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.

Give full attention and devotion to each act.