Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.

An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.