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.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

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.

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.