Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.
Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
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