You ought to make yourself of a different stamp from the multitude.

"The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd."

And when you have progressed so far that you have also respect for yourself, you may send away your attendant; but until then, set as a guard over yourself the authority of some man, whether your choice be the great Cato or Scipio, or Laelius, – or any man in whose presence even abandoned wretches would check their bad impulses.

There is no real doubt that it is good for one to have appointed a guardian over oneself, and to have someone whom you may look up to, someone whom you may regard as a witness of your thoughts.

The things which we actually need are free for all, or else cheap;

I do not know whether I shall make progress; but I should prefer to lack success rather than to lack faith.

for I do not love this one[1] if I am unwilling to hurt his feelings.

take every liberty;

I shall