The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.
Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor
Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.
In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.