Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.

Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love ... then make that day count!

The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

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?