“Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”

“No man can be sane who searches for what will injure him in place of what is best.”

“Men whose spirit has grown arrogant from the great favor of fortune have this most serious fault—those whom they have injured they also hate.”

“Why do I not rather seek some real good - one which I could feel, not one which I could display? These things that draw the eyes of men, before which they halt, which they show to one another in wonder, outwardly glitter, but are worthless within.”

“One hand washes the other.(Manus Manum Lavat)”

“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.”

“And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name.”