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.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

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.