Remember how long you've been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn't use them. - Marcus Aurelius

There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.

Not a dancer but a wrestler: waiting, poised, dug in, for sudden assaults.

When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For by attending to this thou wilt quickly forget thy anger, if this consideration is also added, that the man is compelled; for what else could he do? or, if thou art able, take away from him the compulsion.