The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
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.
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.