Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.

'Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard

The way people behave. They refuse to admire their contemporaries, the people whose lives they share. No, but to be admired by Posterity -- people they've never met and never will -- that's what they set their hearts on. You might as well be upset at not being a hero to your great-grandfather.

Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day

Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.