It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
Do everything as in the eye of another.
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.
If you judge, investigate.
While we wait for life, life passes
Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.