Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.

Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.

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.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.