Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

True love hates and will not bear delay.

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.