,,book ,,of ,,wise ,,sayings ,,selected ,,largely ,,from ,,eastern ,,sources ,,by ,w4 ,a4 ,,clouston ,author of ,popular ,tales and ,fictions1 ,literary ,coincidences1 and other ,papers1 ,flowers from a ,persian ,garden1 etc4 ,concise sentences1 like darts1 fly abroad and make impressions1 while long discourses are tedious and not regarded4--,,bacon4 ,many are the sayings of the wise1 ,in ancient and in modern books enrolled4--,,milton4 ,,london ,,published ,,by ,,hutchinson ,,co4 ,,at #cd ,,paternoster ,,row #ahic ,,printed ,,at ,,nimeguen 7,,holland7 ,,by ,h4 ,c4 ,a4 ,,thieme ,,of ,,nimeguen 7,,holland7 ,,and ,,talbot ,,house1 ,,arundel ,,street ,,london1 ,w4,c4 ,,to ,,francis ,,thornton ,,barrett1 ,,chief ,,librarian1 ,,mitchell ,,library1 ,,glasgow1 ,,this ,,little ,,book1 ,,with ,,friendly ,,greetings1 ,,is ,,inscribed4 ,,preface4 ,cynics may ask1 how many have profited by the innumerable proverbs and maxims of prudence which have been current in the world time out of mind8 ,they will say that their only use is to repeat them after some unhappy wight has gone wrong4 ,when1 for instance1 a man has played ducks and drakes with his money1 the fact at once calls up the proverb which declares that wilful waste leads to woful want2 but did not the waster know this well-worn saying from his early years downwards8 ,what good1 then1 did it do him8 ,again1 how many have been benefited by the saying of the ancient ,greek poet1 that evil communications corrupt good manners8--albeit they had it frequently before them in their school copy-books4 ,are the maxims of morality useless1 then1 because they are so much disregarded8 ,when a man has reached middle-age he generally feels with tenfold force the truth of those sayings of the wise which he learned in his early years1 and has cause to regret1 as well as wonder1 that he had not all along followed their wholesome teaching4 ,for it is to the young1 who are about to cross the threshold of active life1 that such terse convincing sentences are more especially addressed1 and1 spite of the proverbial heedlessness of youth1 there will be found many who are not deaf to this kind of instruction1 if their moral environment be favourable4 ,but1 even after the spring-time of youth is past1 there are occasions when the mind is peculiarly susceptible to the force of a pithy maxim1 which may tend to the reforming of one's way of life4 ,there is commonly more practical wisdom in a striking aphorism than in a round dozen of goody books--that is to say1 books which are not good in the highest sense1 because their themes are overlaid with commonplace and wearisome reflections4 ,may we not find the whole duty of man condensed into a few brief sentences1 which have been expressed by thoughtful men in all ages and in countries far apart8--such as3 ,love thy neighbour as thyself1 ,do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you4 ,the chief themes of all teachers of morality are3 benevolence and beneficence2 tolerance of the opinions of others2 self-control2 the acquisition of knowledge--that jewel beyond price2 the true uses of wealth2 the advantages of resolute1 manly exertion2 the dignity of labour2 the futility of worldly pleasures2 the fugacity of time2 man's individual insignificance4 ,they are never weary of inculcating taciturnity in preference to loquacity1 and the virtues of patience and resignation4 ,they iterate and reiterate the fact that true happiness is to be found only in contentment2 and they administer consolation and infuse hope by reminding us that as dark days are followed by bright days1 so times of bitter adversity are followed by seasons of sweet prosperity2 and thus1 like the immortal ,sir ,hudibras1 when in doleful dumps1 we may cheer ourselves with ends of verse1 and sayings of philosophers4 ,in the following small selection of aphorisms1 a considerable proportion are drawn from ,eastern literature4 ,indian wisdom is represented by passages from the great epics1 the ,mahbhrata and the ,rmyana2 the ,panchatantra and the ,hitopadesa1 two ,sanskrit versions of the famous collection of apologues known in ,europe as the ,fables of ,bidpa1 or ,pilpay2 the ,dharma-sastra of ,manu2 ,bhravi1 ,mgha1 ,bhartrihari1 and other ,hindu poets4 ,specimens of the mild teachings of ,buddha and his more notable followers are taken from the ,dhammapada 7,path of ,virtue7 and other canonical works2 pregnant sayings of the ,jewish ,fathers1 from the ,talmud2 ,moslem moral philosophy is represented by extracts from ,arabic and ,persian writers 7among the great poets of ,persia are1 ,firdaus1 ,sa'd1 ,hfiz1 ,nizm1 ,omar ,khayym1 ,jm72 while the proverbial wisdom of the ,chinese and the didactic writings of the sages of ,burmah are also occasionally cited4 ,the ordinary reader will probably be somewhat surprised to discover in the aphorisms of the ancient ,greeks and ,hindus several close parallels to the doctrines of the ,old and ,new ,testaments1 and he will have reasoned justly if he conclude that the so-called heathens could have derived their spiritual light only from the same ,source as that which inspired the ,hebrew prophets and the ,christian apostles4 ,among ,english writers of aphorisms ,francis ,bacon1 ,lord ,verulam1 is pre-eminent1 but none of his pithy sentences find place here1 because they are procurable in many inexpensive forms1 7e4g41 ,counsels from my ,lord ,bacon1 #ahib71 and must be familiar to what is termed the average general reader4 ,the ,enchiridion of ,frances ,quarles and the ,resolves of ,owen ,feltham are1 however1 laid under contribution1 as also ,robert ,chamberlain1 an author who is probably unknown to many pluming themselves on their thorough acquaintance with ,english literature1 some of whose aphorisms 7published in #afch1 under the title of ,nocturnal ,lucubrations7 ,i have deemed worthy of reproduction4 ,in more modern times1 with the sole exception of ,william ,hazlitt1 our country has produced no very successful writer of aphorisms4 ,colton's ,lacon2 or1 ,many ,things in ,few ,words1 ,addressed to ,those who ,think1 went through several editions soon after its first publication in #ahbj2 it is described by ,mr4 ,john ,morley--and not unfairly--as being so vapid1 so wordy1 so futile as to have a place among those books which dispense with parody2 it is an awful example to anyone who is tempted to try his hand at an aphorism4 ,mr4 ,morley is hardly less severe in speaking of the ,thoughts in ,theophrastus ,such3 the most insufferable of all deadly-lively prosing in our sublunary world4 ,however this may be1 assuredly other works of the author of ,adam ,bede will be found to furnish many examples of admirable apothegms4 ,it only remains to add that1 bearing in mind that a great collection of gravities commonly proves quite as wearisome reading as a large compilation of gaieties1 or faceti1 ,i have confined my selection of sayings of the wise within the limits of a pocket-volume4 ,w4 ,a4 ,c4 ,,book ,,of ,,wise ,,sayings4 #a4 ,the enemies which rise within the body1 hard to be overcome--thy evil passions--should manfully be fought3 he who conquers these is equal to the conquerors of worlds4 ,bhravi4 #b4 ,if passion gaineth the mastery over reason1 the wise will not count thee amongst men4 ,firdaus4 #c4 ,knowledge is destroyed by associating with the base2 with equals equality is gained1 and with the distinguished1 distinction4 ,hitopadesa4 #d4 ,dost thou desire that thine own heart should not suffer1 redeem thou the sufferer from the bonds of misery4 ,sa'd4 #e4 ,to friends and eke to foes true kindness show2 ,no kindly heart unkindly deeds will do2 ,harshness will alienate a bosom friend4 ,and kindness reconcile a deadly foe4 ,omar ,khayym4 #f4 ,there is no greater grief in misery than to turn our thoughts back to happier times4#a ,dante4 #a ,cf4 ,goldsmith3 ,o ,memory6 thou fond deceiver1 ,still importunate and vain2 ,to former joys recurring ever1 ,and turning all the past to pain4 #g4 ,we in reality only know when we doubt a little4 ,with knowledge comes doubt4 ,goethe4 #h4 ,in the hour of adversity be not without hope1 for crystal rain falls from black clouds4 ,nizm4 #i4 ,one common origin unites us all1 but every sort of wood does not give the perfume of the lignum aloes4 ,arabic4 #aj4 ,i asked an experienced elder who had profited by his knowledge of the world1 ,what course should ,i pursue to obtain prosperity8 ,he replied1 ,contentment--if you are able1 practise contentment4 ,selman4 #aa4 ,every moment that a man may be in want of employment1 than such ,i hold him to be far better who is forced to labour for nothing4 ,afghan4 #ab4 ,the foolish undertake a trifling act1 and soon desist1 discouraged2 wise men engage in mighty works1 and persevere4 ,mgha4 #ac4 ,those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true4 ,bhravi4 #ad4 ,reason is captive in the hands of the passions1 as a weak man in the hands of an artful woman4 ,sa'd4 #ae4 ,like an earthen pot1 a bad man is easily broken1 and cannot readily be restored to his former situation2 but a virtuous man1 like a vase of gold1 is broken with difficulty1 and easily repaired4 ,hitopadesa4 #af4 ,the son who delights his father by his good actions2 the wife who seeks only her husband's good2 the friend who is the same in prosperity and adversity--these three things are the reward of virtue4 ,bhartrihari4 #ag4 ,let us not overstrain our abilities1 or we shall do nothing with grace4 ,a clown1 whatever he may do1 will never pass for a gentleman4 ,la ,fontaine4 #ah4 ,to abstain from speaking is regarded as very difficult4 ,it is not possible to say much that is valuable and striking4#b ,mahbhrata4 #b ,cf4 ,james1 ,,iii1 #h4 #ai4 ,pagodas are1 like mosques1 true houses of prayer2 ',tis prayer that church bells waft upon the air2 ,kaaba and temple1 rosary and cross1 ,all are but divers tongues of world-wide prayer4 ,omar ,khayym4 #bj4 ,in no wise ask about the faults of others1 for he who reporteth the faults of others will report thine also4 ,firdaus4 #ba4 ,he that holds fast the golden mean1 ,and lives contentedly between ,the little and the great1 ,feels not the wants that pinch the poor1 ,nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door1 ,embittering all his state4 ,horace4 #bb4 ,nothing is more becoming a man than silence4 ,it is not the preaching but the practice which ought to be considered as the more important4 ,a profusion of words is sure to lead to error4 ,talmud4 #bc4 ,consider1 and you will find that almost all the transactions of the time of ,vespasian differed little from those of the present day4 ,you there find marrying and giving in marriage1 educating children1 sickness1 death1 war1 joyous holidays1 traffic1 agriculture1 flatterers1 insolent pride1 suspicions1 laying of plots1 longing for the death of others1 newsmongers1 lovers1 misers1 men canvassing for consulship--yet all these passed away1 and are nowhere4 ,m4 ,aurelius4 #bd4 ,the friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides1 which1 falling1 buries him who is beneath4 ,bhravi4 #be4 ,his action no applause invites ,who simply good with good repays2 ,he only justly merits praise ,who wrongful deeds with kind requites4#c ,panchatantra4 #c ,matt4 ,v1 #dc1 #dd4 #bf4 ,death comes1 and makes a man his prey1 ,a man whose powers are yet unspent2 ,like one on gathering flowers intent1 ,whose thoughts are turned another way4 ,begin betimes to practise good1 ,lest fate surprise thee unawares ,amid thy round of schemes and cares2 ,to-morrow's task to-day conclude4#d ,mahbhrata4 #d ,eccles4 ,,ix1 #aj2 ,,xii1 #a4 #bg4 ,let a man's talents or virtues be what they may1 we feel satisfaction in his society only as he is satisfied in himself4 ,we cannot enjoy the good qualities of a friend if he seems to be none the better for them4 ,hazlitt4 #bh4 ,it was a false maxim of ,domitian that he who would gain the people of ,rome must promise all things and perform nothing4 ,for when a man is known to be false in his word1 instead of a column1 which he might be by keeping it1 for others to rest upon1 he becomes a reed1 which no man will vouchsafe to lean upon4 ,like a floating island1 when we come next day to seek it1 it is carried from the place we left it in1 and1 instead of earth to build upon1 we find nothing but inconstant and deceiving waves4 ,feltham4 #bi4 ,he is not dead who departs this life with high fame2 dead is he1 though living1 whose brow is branded with infamy4 ,tieck4 #cj4 ,in the height of thy prosperity expect adversity1 but fear it not4 ,if it come not1 thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast1 and the more strongly confirmed4 ,if it come1 thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst1 and the more firmly prepared4 ,quarles4 #ca4 ,a prudent man will not discover his poverty1 his self-torments1 the disorders of his house1 his uneasiness1 or his disgrace4 ,hitopadesa4 #cb4 ,men are of three different capacities3 one understands intuitively2 another understands so far as it is explained2 and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation4 ,the first is excellent1 the second1 commendable1 and the third1 altogether useless4 ,machiavelli4 #cc4 ,it is difficult to understand men1 but still harder to know them thoroughly4 ,schiller4 #cd4 ,worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtue of the mind2 anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to the health of the body4 ,chinese4 #ce4 ,alas1 for him who is gone and hath done no good work6 ,the trumpet of march has sounded1 and his load was not bound on4 ,persian4 #cf4 ,human experience1 like the stern-lights of a ship at sea1 illumines only the path which we have passed over4 ,coleridge4 #cg4 ,man is an actor who plays various parts3 ,first comes a boy1 then out a lover starts2 ,his garb is changed for1 lo6 a beggar's rags2 ,then he's a merchant with full money-bags2 ,anon1 an aged sire1 wrinkled and lean2 ,at last ,death drops the curtain on the scene4#e ,bhartrihari4 #e ,cf4 ,shakspeare3 ,all the world's a stage1 etc4--,as ,you ,like ,it1 ,act ,,ii1 sc4 #g4 #ch4 ,through avarice a man loses his understanding1 and by his thirst for wealth he gives pain to the inhabitants of both worlds4 ,hitopadesa4 #ci4 ,men soon the faults of others learn1 ,a few their virtues1 too1 find out2 ,but is there one--,i have a doubt-- ,who can his own defects discern8 ,sanskrit4 #dj4 ,in learning1 age and youth go for nothing2 the best informed take the precedence4 ,chinese4 #da4 ,mention not a blemish which is thy own in detraction of a neighbour4 ,talmud4 #db4 ,affairs succeed by patience1 and he that is hasty falleth headlong4 ,sa'd4 #dc4 ,a man who has learnt little grows old like an ox3 his flesh grows1 but his knowledge does not grow4 ,dhammapada4 #dd4 ,unsullied poverty is always happy1 while impure wealth brings with it many sorrows4 ,chinese4 #de4 ,both white and black acknowledge women's sway1 ,so much the better and the wiser too1 ,deeming it most convenient to obey1 ,or possibly they might their folly rue4#f ,persian4 #f ,cf4 ,pope3 ,would men but follow what the sex advise1 ,all things would prosper1 all the world grow wise4 #df4 ,we are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves4 ,hazlitt4 #dg4 ,no one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much4 ,richter4 #dh4 ,the heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties1 and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone4 ,dante4 #di4 ,this world is a beautiful book1 but of little use to him who cannot read it4 ,goldoni4 #ej4 ,sorrows are like thunder-clouds3 in the distance they look black1 over our heads1 hardly gray4 ,richter4 #ea4 ,the gem cannot be polished without friction1 nor man perfected without trials4 ,chinese4 #eb4 ,health is the greatest gift1 contentedness the best riches4 ,dhammapada4 #ec4 ,great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance4 ,demosthenes4 #ed4 ,let none with scorn a suppliant meet1 ,or from the door untended spurn ,a dog2 an outcast kindly treat2 ,and so thou shalt be blest in turn4 ,mahbhrata4 #ee4 ,choose knowledge1 if thou desirest a blessing from the ,universal ,provider2 for the ignorant man cannot raise himself above the earth1 and it is by knowledge that thou must render thy soul praiseworthy4 ,firdaus4 #ef4 ,good fortune is a benefit to the wise1 but a curse to the foolish4 ,chinese4 #eg4 ,in this thing one man is superior to another1 that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity4 ,philemon4 #eh4 ,the rays of happiness1 like those of light1 are colourless when unbroken4 ,longfellow4 #ei4 ,there are three things which1 in great quantity1 are bad1 and1 in little1 very good3 leaven1 salt1 and liberality4 ,talmud4 #fj4 ,who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity2 who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it4 ,burmese4 #fa4 ,keep thy heart afar from sorrow1 and be not anxious about the trouble which is not yet come4 ,firdaus4 #fb4 ,if thy garments be clean and thy heart be foul1 thou needest no key to the door of hell4 ,sa'd4 #fc4 ,we ought never to mock the wretched1 for who can be sure of being always happy8 ,la ,fontaine4 #fd4 ,to those who err in judgment1 not in will1 anger is gentle4 ,sophocles4 #fe4 ,not only is the old man twice a child1 but also the man who is drunk4 ,plato4 #ff4 ,wrapt up in error is the human mind1 ,and human bliss is ever insecure2 ,know we what fortune yet remains behind8 ,know we how long the present shall endure8 ,pindar4 #fg4 ,a wise man adapts himself to circumstances1 as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it4 ,chinese4 #fh4 ,he who formerly was reckless and afterwards became sober brightens up this world like the moon when freed from clouds4 ,dhammapada4 #fi4 ,when a base fellow cannot vie with another in merit he will attack him with malicious slander4 ,sa'd4 #gj4 ,if a man be not so happy as he desires1 let this be his comfort--he is not so wretched as he deserves4 ,r4 ,chamberlain4 #ga4 ,in conversation humour is more than wit1 easiness1 more than knowledge2 few desire to learn1 or to think they need it2 all desire to be pleased1 or1 if not1 to be easy4 ,sir ,w4 ,temple4 #gb4 ,the greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves1 but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction4 ,tom ,browne4 #gc4 ,we may be as good as we please1 if we please to be good4 ,barrow4 #gd4 ,the round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion which his virtue obliges him to pay4 ,he spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment1 injury and reparation4 ,johnson4 #ge4 ,to reprehend well is the most necessary and the hardest part of friendship4 ,who is it that does not sometimes merit a check1 and yet how few will endure one8 ,yet wherein can a friend more unfold his love than in preventing dangers before their birth1 or in bringing a man to safety who is travelling on the road to ruin8 ,i grant there is a manner of reprehending which turns a benefit into an injury1 and then it both strengthens error and wounds the giver4 ,when thou chidest thy wandering friend do it secretly1 in season1 in love1 not in the ear of a popular convention1 for oftentimes the presence of a multitude makes a man take up an unjust defence1 rather than fall into a just shame4 ,feltham4 #gf4 ,i put no account on him who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him4 ,goethe4 #gg4 ,he who seeks wealth sacrifices his own pleasure1 and1 like him who carries burdens for others1 bears the load of anxiety4 ,hitopadesa4 #gh4 ,circumspection in calamity2 mercy in greatness2 good speeches in assemblies2 fortitude in adversity3 these are the self-attained perfections of great souls4 ,hitopadesa4 #gi4 ,the best preacher is the heart2 the best teacher is time2 the best book is the world2 the best friend is ,god4 ,talmud4 #hj4 ,a woman will not throw away a garland1 though soiled1 which her lover gave3 not in the object lies a present's worth1 but in the love which it was meant to mark4 ,bhravi4 #ha4 ,men who have not observed discipline1 and have not gained treasure in their youth1 perish like old herons in a lake without fish4 ,dhammapada4 #hb4 ,as drops of bitter medicine1 though minute1 may have a salutary force1 so words1 though few and painful1 uttered seasonably1 may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency4 ,bhravi4 #hc4 ,there are three whose life is no life3 he who lives at another's table2 he whose wife domineers over him2 and he who suffers bodily affliction4 ,talmud4 #hd4 ,let thy words between two foes be such that if they were to become friends thou shouldst not be ashamed4 ,sa'd4 #he4 ,an indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one2 for as the latter will only attack his enemies1 and those he wishes ill to1 the other injures indifferently both his friends and foes4 ,addison4 #hf4 ,a man of quick and active wit ,for drudgery is more unfit1 ,compared to those of duller parts1 ,than running nags are to draw carts4 ,butler4 #hg4 ,all affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich4 ,lavater4 #hh4 ,there never was1 there never will be1 a man who is always praised1 or a man who is always blamed4 ,dhammapada4 #hi4 ,a good man's intellect is piercing1 yet inflicts no wound2 his actions are deliberate1 yet bold2 his heart is warm1 but never burns2 his speech is eloquent1 yet ever true4 ,mgha4 #ij4 ,he who can feel ashamed will not readily do wrong4 ,talmud4 #ia4 ,a stranger who is kind is a kinsman2 an unkind kinsman is a stranger4 ,hitopadesa4 #ib4 ,the good to others kindness show1 ,and from them no return exact2 ,the best and greatest men1 they know1 ,thus ever nobly love to act4#g ,mahbhrata4 #g ,cf4 ,luke1 ,,vi1 #cd1 #ce4 #ic4 ,trees loaded with fruit are bent down2 the clouds when charged with fresh rain hang down near the earth3 even so good men are not uplifted through prosperity4 ,such is the natural character of the liberal4 ,bhartrihari4 #id4 ,the man who neither gives in charity nor enjoys his wealth1 which every day increases1 breathes1 indeed1 like the bellows of a smith1 but cannot be said to live4 ,hitopadesa4 #ie4 ,that energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object4 ,mgha4 #if4 ,our writings are like so many dishes1 our readers1 our guests1 our books1 like beauty--that which one admires another rejects2 so we are approved as men's fancies are inclined4444 ,as apothecaries1 we make new mixtures every day1 pour out of one vessel into another2 and as those old ,romans robbed all cities of the world to set out their bad-cited ,rome1 we skim off the cream of other men's wits1 pick the choice flowers of their tilled gardens1 to set out our own sterile plots4 ,we weave the same web still1 twist the same rope again and again2 or1 if it be a new invention1 'tis but some bauble or toy1 which idle fellows write1 for as idle fellows to read4#h ,burton4 #h ,ferriar has pointed out1 in his ,illustrations of ,sterne1 how these passages from ,burton's ,anatomy of ,melancholy have been boldly plagiarised in the introduction to the fragment on ,whiskers in ,tristram ,shandy3 ,shall we for ever make new books as apothecaries make new mixtures1 by only pouring out of one vessel into another8 ,are we for ever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope8 ,and ,dr4 ,johnson1 who was a great admirer of ,burton1 adopts the illustration of the plundering ,romans in his ,rambler1 ,no4 #adc4 #ig4 ,it is our follies that make our lives uncomfortable4 ,our errors of opinion1 our cowardly fear of the world's worthless censure1 and our eagerness after unnecessary gold have hampered the way of virtue1 and made it far more difficult than1 in itself1 it is4 ,feltham4 #ih4 ,there is not half so much danger in the desperate sword of a known foe as in the smooth insinuations of a pretended friend4 ,r4 ,chamberlain4 #ii4 ,nothing is so oppressive as a secret2 it is difficult for ladies to keep it long1 and ,i know even in this matter a good number of men who are women4 ,la ,fontaine4 #ajj4 ,all kinds of beauty do not inspire love3 there is a kind of it which pleases only the sight1 but does not captivate the affections4 ,cervantes4 #aja4 ,contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel1 but in taking away some fire4 ,fuller4 #ajb4 ,it is difficult to personate and act a part long1 for where truth is not at the bottom ,nature will always be endeavouring to return1 and will peep out and betray herself one time or other4 ,tillotson4 #ajc4 ,the truest characters of ignorance ,are vanity1 pride1 and arrogance2 ,as blind men use to bear their noses higher ,than those that have their eyes and sight entire4 ,butler4 #ajd4 ,it is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation4 ,r4 ,chamberlain4 #aje4 ,he travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love4 ,sir ,p4 ,sidney4 #ajf4 ,never put thyself in the way of temptation3 even ,david could not resist it4 ,talmud4 #ajg4 ,pride is a vice which pride itself inclines every man to find in others and overlook in himself4 ,johnson4 #ajh4 ,by six qualities may a fool be known3 anger1 without cause2 speech1 without profit2 change1 without motive2 inquiry1 without an object2 trust in a stranger2 and incapacity to discriminate between friend and foe4 ,arabic4 #aji4 ,men are not to be judged by their looks1 habits1 and appearances1 but by the character of their lives and conversations4 ',tis better that a man's own works than another man's words should praise him4 ,sir ,r4 ,l',estrange4 #aaj4 ,to exert his power in doing good is man's most glorious task4 ,sophocles4 #aaa4 ,those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are prepared to use it2 when they do not require it they allow it to remain unbent1 for otherwise it would be unserviceable when the time for using it arrived4 ,so it is with man4 ,if he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business1 without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements1 he would fall imperceptibly into idiotcy1 or be struck with paralysis4 ,herodotus4 #aab4 ,blinded by self-conceit and knowing nothing1 ,like elephant infatuate with passion1 ,i thought within myself1 ,i all things knew2 ,but when by slow degrees ,i somewhat learnt ,by aid of wise preceptors1 my conceit1 ,like some disease1 passed off2 and now ,i live ,in the plain sense of what a fool ,i am4 ,bhartrihari4 #aac4 ,time is the most important thing in human life1 for what is pleasure after the departure of time8 and the most consolatory1 since pain1 when pain has passed1 is nothing4 ,time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity1 conducting us to the ,incomprehensible4 ,in its progress there is a ripening power1 and it ripens us the more1 and the more powerfully1 when we duly estimate it4 ,listen to its voice1 do not waste it1 but regard it as the highest finite good1 in which all finite things are resolved4 ,von ,humboldt4 #aad4 ,all that we are is made up of our thoughts2 it is founded on our thoughts1 it is made up of our thoughts4 ,if a man speak or act with a pure thought1 happiness will follow him1 like a shadow that never leaves him4 ,dhammapada4 #aae4 ,depend not on another1 rather lean ,upon thyself2 trust to thine own exertions3 ,subjection to another's will gives pain2 ,true happiness consists in self-reliance4 ,manu4 #aaf4 ,if the friendship of the good be interrupted1 their minds admit of no long change2 as when the stalks of a lotus are broken the filaments within them are more visibly cemented4 ,hitopadesa4 #aag4 ,anger that has no limit causes terror1 and unseasonable kindness does away with respect4 ,be not so severe as to cause disgust1 nor so lenient as to make people presume4 ,sa'd4 #aah4 ,be patient1 if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish2 for like patience is there no appliance effective of success1 producing certainly abundant fruit of actions1 never damped by failure1 conquering all impediments4 ,bhravi4 #aai4 ,as rain breaks through an ill-thatched house1 passion breaks through an unreflecting mind4 ,dhammapada4 #abj4 ,most men1 even the most accomplished1 are of limited faculties2 every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others3 these alone he is willing to favour1 these alone will he have cultivated4 ,goethe4 #aba4 ,poverty1 we may say1 surrounds a man with ready-made barriers1 which if they do mournfully gall and hamper1 do at least prescribe for him1 and force on him1 a sort of course and goal2 a safe and beaten1 though a circuitous1 course4 ,a great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error1 is withdrawn from his control4 ,the rich1 again1 has his whole life to guide1 without goal or barrier1 save of his own choosing1 and1 tempted1 is too likely to guide it ill4 ,carlyle4 #abb4 ,by ,fate full many a heart has been undone1 ,and many a sprightly rose made woe-begone2 ,plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength3 ,full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom4 ,omar ,khayym4 #abc4 ,the best thing is to be respected1 the next1 is to be loved2 it is bad to be hated1 but still worse to be despised4 ,chinese4 #abd4 ,to be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied4 ,pindar4 #abe4 ,he only does not live in vain ,who all the means within his reach ,employs--his wealth1 his thought1 his speech-- ,t'advance the weal of other men4 ,sanskrit4 #abf4 ,if you injure a harmless person1 the evil will fall back upon you1 like light dust thrown up against the wind4 ,buddhist4 #abg4 ,in the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling1 which seem almost miraculous4 ,at once1 as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth1 the dark clouds melt into the air1 the wind falls1 and serenity succeeds the storm4 ,the causes which produce these changes may have been long at work within us1 but the changes themselves are instantaneous1 and apparently without sufficient cause4 ,longfellow4 #abh4 ,man is an intellectual animal1 therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself4 ,his senses centre in himself1 his ideas reach to the ends of the universe2 so that he is torn in pieces between the two without the possibility of its ever being otherwise4 ,a mere physical being or a pure spirit can alone be satisfied with itself4 ,hazlitt4 #abi4 ,the pure in heart1 who fear to sin1 ,the good1 kindly in word and deed-- ,these are the beings in the world ,whose nature should be called divine4 ,buddhist4 #acj4 ,if thou desirest that the pure in heart should praise thee1 lay aside anger2 be not a man of many words2 and parade not thy virtues in the face of others4 ,firdaus4 #aca4 ,a wise man takes a step at a time2 he establishes one foot before he takes up the other3 an old place should not be forsaken recklessly4 ,sanskrit4 #acb4 ,the fish dwell in the depths of the waters1 and the eagles in the sides of heaven2 the one1 though high1 may be reached with the arrow1 and the other1 though deep1 with the hook2 but the heart of man at a foot's distance cannot be known4#i ,burmese4 #i ,cf4 ,proverbs1 ,,xxv1 #c4 #acc4 ,the life of man is the incessant walk of nature1 wherein every moment is a step towards death4 ,even our growing to perfection is a progress to decay4 ,every thought we have is a sand running out of the glass of life4 ,feltham4 #acd4 ,i have observed that as long as a man lives and exerts himself he can always find food and raiment1 though1 it may be1 not of the choicest description4 ,goethe4 #ace4 ,there are no riches like the sweetness of content1 nor poverty comparable to the want of patience4 ,r4 ,chamberlain4 #acf4 ',tis not for gain1 for fame1 from fear ,that righteous men injustice shun1 ,and virtuous men hold virtue dear3 ,an inward voice they seem to hear1 ,which tells them duty must be done4 ,mahbhrata4 #acg4 ,as far and wide the vernal breeze ,sweet odours waft from blooming trees1 ,so1 too1 the grateful savour spreads ,to distant lands of virtuous deeds4 ,sanskrit4 #ach4 ,in this world1 however little happiness may have been our portion1 yet have we no desire to die4 ,whether he can speak of life as cheerful and delicate1 or as full of pain1 anxiety1 and sorrow1 never yet have ,i seen one who wished to die4 ,firdaus4 #aci4 ,when morning silvers the dark firmament1 ,why shrills the bird of dawning his lament8 ,it is to show in dawn's bright looking-glass ,how of thy careless life a night is spent4 ,omar ,khayym4 #adj4 ,be thou generous1 and gentle1 and forgiving2 as ,god hath scattered upon thee1 scatter thou upon others4 ,sa'd4 #ada4 ,in the body restraint is good2 good is restraint in speech2 in thought restraint is good3 good is restraint in all things4 ,dhammapada4 #adb4 ,men say that everyone is naturally a lover of himself1 and that it is right that it should be so4 ,this is a mistake2 for in fact the cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love4 ,for the lover is blinded by the object loved1 so that he passes a wrong judgment upon what is just1 good1 and beautiful1 thinking that he ought always to honour what belongs to himself1 in preference to truth4 ,for he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things1 but only what is just1 whether it happens to be done by himself or by another4 ,plato4 #adc4 ,a man eminent in learning has not even a little virtue if he fears to practise it4 ,what precious things can be shown to a blind man when he holds a lamp in his hand8 ,hitopadesa4 #add4 ,the first forty years of our life give the text1 the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it1 which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties4 ,schopenhauer4 #ade4 ,good actions lead to success1 as good medicines to a cure3 a healthy man is joyful1 and a diligent man attains learning2 a just man gains the reward of his virtue4 ,hitopadesa4 #adf4 ,purpose without power is mere weakness and deception2 and power without purpose is mere fatuity4 ,sa'd4 #adg4 ,suffering is the necessary consequence of sin1 just as when you eat a sour fruit a stomach complaint ensues4 ,burmese4 #adh4 ,riches disclose in a man's character the bad qualities formerly concealed in his poverty4 ,arabic4 #adi4 ,whate'er the work a man performs1 ,the most effective aid to its completion-- ,the most prolific source of true success-- ,is energy1 without despondency4 ,ramyna4 #aej4 ,humility is a virtue all preach1 none practise1 and yet everybody is content to hear4 ,the master thinks it good doctrine for his servant1 the laity for the clergy1 and the clergy for the laity4 ,selden4 #aea4 ,authority intoxicates1 ,and makes mere sots of magistrates2 ,the fumes of it invade the brain1 ,and make men giddy1 proud1 and vain2 ,by this the fool commands the wise1 ,the noble with the base complies1 ,the sot assumes the rule of wit1 ,and cowards make the base submit4 ,butler4 #aeb4 ,no man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection1 for he rates himself sometimes too low1 and often too high1 by his own measurement4 ,man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men2 it is life that touches his genuine worth4 ,goethe4 #aec4 ,increase in goodness as long as thou art here1 that1 when thou departest1 in that thou mayest still be joyful4 ,according to our words and deeds in this life will be the remembrance of us in the world4 ,firdaus4 #aed4 ,parents' affection is best shown by their teaching their children industry and self-denial4 ,burmese4 #aee4 ,there are three things to beware of through life3 when a man is young1 let him beware of his appetites2 when he is middle-aged1 of his passions2 and when old1 of covetousness1 especially4 ,confucius4 #aef4 ,he who has given satisfaction to the best of his time has lived for ages4 ,schiller4 #aeg4 ,i never yet found pride in a noble nature nor humility in an unworthy mind4 ,feltham4 #aeh4 ,worldly fame is but a breath of wind1 that blows now this way1 now that1 and changes name as it changes sides4 ,dante4 #aei4 ,true modesty and true pride are much the same thing4 ,both consist in setting a just value on ourselves--neither more nor less4 ,hazlitt4 #afj4 ,never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another4 ,richter4 #afa4 ,a foolish husband fears his wife2 a prudent wife obeys her husband4 ,chinese4 #afb4 ,he who devises evil for another falls at last into his own pit1 and the most cunning finds himself caught by what he had prepared for another4 ,but virtue without guile1 erect like the lofty palm1 rises with greater vigour when it is oppressed4 ,metastasio4 #afc4 ,laughing is peculiar to man1 but all men do not laugh for the same reason4 ,there is the attic salt which springs from the charm in the words1 from the flash of wit1 from the spirited and brilliant sally4 ,there is the low joke which arises from scurrility and idle conceit4 ,goldoni4 #afd4 ,the woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers4 ,cervantes4 #afe4 ,petty ambition would seem to be a mean craving after distinction4 ,theophrastus4 #aff4 ,it is an old observation that wise men grow usually wiser as they grow older1 and fools more foolish4 ,wieland4 #afg4 ,use law and physic only for necessity4 ,they that use them otherwise abuse themselves into weak bodies and light purses4 ,they are good remedies1 bad businesses1 and worse recreations4 ,quarles4 #afh4 ,in some dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth as excellent2 so that when they hear one justly praised they will either openly detract from his virtues2 or1 if those virtues be1 like a clear and shining light1 eminent and distinguished1 so that he cannot be safely traduced by the tongue1 they will then raise a suspicion against him by a mysterious silence1 as if there were something remaining to be told which overclouded even his brightest glory4 ,feltham4 #afi4 ,every man thinks with himself1 ,i am well1 ,i am wise1 and laughs at others2 and 'tis a general fault amongst them all1 that which our forefathers approved--diet1 apparel1 humours1 customs1 manners--we deride and reject in our time as absurd4 ,burton4 #agj4 ,repeated sin destroys the understanding ,and he whose reason is impaired repeats ,his sins4 ,the constant practising of virtue ,strengthens the mental faculties1 and he ,whose judgment stronger grows acts always right4 ,mahbhrata4 #aga4 ,if you wish to know how much preferable wisdom is to gold1 then observe3 if you change gold you get silver for it1 but your gold is gone2 but if you exchange one sort of wisdom for another1 you obtain fresh knowledge1 and at the same time keep what you possessed before4 ,talmud4 #agb4 ,the man who listens not to the words of affectionate friends will give joy in the time of distress to his enemies4 ,hitopadesa4 #agc4 ,it is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune1 and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself4 ,but we may view it in another light1 namely1 that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of ,providence as to be happy in our lot1 whatever may be its privations4 ,von ,humboldt4 #agd4 ,be very circumspect in the choice of thy company4 ,in the society of thy equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure2 in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit4 ,to be the best of the company is the way to grow worse2 the best means to grow better is to be the worst there4 ,quarles4 #age4 ,assume in adversity a countenance of prosperity1 and in prosperity moderate thy temper4 ,livy4 #agf4 ,mark this6 who lives beyond his means ,forfeits respect1 loses his sense2 ,where'er he goes1 through the seven births1 ,all count him knave3 him women hate4 ,hindu ,poetess4 #agg4 ,be cautious in your intercourse with the great2 they seldom confer obligations on their inferiors but from interested motives4 ,friendly they appear as long as it serves their turn1 but they will render no assistance in time of actual need4 ,talmud4 #agh4 ,man1 though he be gray-headed when he comes back1 soon gets a young wife4 ,but a woman's time is short within which she can expect to obtain a husband4 ,if she allows it to slip away1 no one cares to marry her4 ,she sits at home1 speculating on the probability of her marriage4 ,aristophanes4 #agi4 ,hearts are like tapers1 which at beauteous eyes ,kindle a flame of love that never dies2 ,and beauty is a flame1 where hearts1 like moths1 ,offer themselves a burning sacrifice4 ,omar ,khayym4 #ahj4 ,when thou utterest not a word thou hast laid thy hand upon it2 when thou hast uttered it1 it hath laid its hand on thee4 ,sa'd4 #aha4 ,to the tongue which bringeth thee words without reason1 the answer that best beseemeth thee is--silence4 ,nizm4 #ahb4 ,the man who talketh much and never acteth will not be held in reputation by anyone4 ,firdaus4 #ahc4 ,two sources of success are known3 wisdom and effort2 make them both thine own1 if thou wouldst haply rise4 ,mgha4 #ahd4 ,the worse the ill that fate on noble souls ,inflicts1 the more their firmness2 and they arm ,their spirits with adamant to meet the blow4 ,hindu ,drama4 #ahe4 ,opportunities lose not1 for all delay is madness2 ',mid bitter sorrow patience show1 for 'tis the key of gladness4 ,turkish4 #ahf4 ,man is the only animal with the powers of laughter1 a privilege which was not bestowed on him for nothing4 ,let us then laugh while we may1 no matter how broad the laugh may be1 and despite of what the poet says about the loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind4 ,the mind should occasionally be vacant1 as the land should sometimes lie fallow1 and for precisely the same reason4 ,egerton ,smith4 #ahg4 ,the man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency1 unless1 in addition to his wealth1 the end of his life be fortunate4 ,we often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour1 whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations4 ,herodotus4 #ahh4 ,love of money is the disease which renders us most pitiful and grovelling1 and love of pleasure is that which renders us most despicable4 ,longinus4 #ahi4 ,he who labours diligently need never despair4 ,we can accomplish every thing by diligence and labour4 ,menander4 #aij4 ,lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs ,than friends1 or kindred1 and with louder cries4 ,juvenal4 #aia4 ,in one short verse ,i here express ,the sum of tomes of sacred lore3 ,beneficence is righteousness1 ,oppression's sin's malignant core4 ,sanskrit4 #aib4 ,a wound inflicted by arrows heals1 a wood cut down by an axe grows1 but harsh words are hateful--a wound inflicted by them does not heal4 ,arrows of different sorts can be extracted from the body1 but a word-dart cannot be drawn out1 for it is seated in the heart4 ,mahbhrata4 #aic4 ,to address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of chaff4 ,hitopadesa4 #aid4 ,all the blessings of a household come through the wife1 therefore should her husband honour her4 ,talmud4 #aie4 ,certain books seem to be written1 not that we might learn from them1 but in order that we might see how much the author knows4 ,goethe4 #aif4 ,all that is old is not therefore necessarily excellent2 all that is new is not despicable on that account alone4 ,let what is really meritorious be pronounced so by the candid judge after due investigation2 blockheads alone are influenced by the opinion of others4 ,hindu ,drama4 #aig4 ,one of the diseases of this age is the multitude of books4 ,it is a thriftless and a thankless occupation1 this writing of books3 a man were better to sing in a cobbler's shop1 for his pay is a penny a patch2 but a book-writer1 if he get sometimes a few commendations from the judicious1 he shall be sure to reap a thousand reproaches from the malicious4 ,barnaby ,rich4 #aih4 ,we rather confess our moral errors1 faults1 and crimes than our ignorance4 ,goethe4 #aii4 ,the angel grows up in divine knowledge1 the brute1 in savage ignorance1 and the son of man stands hesitating between the two4 ,persian4 #bjj4 ,she is a wife who is notable in her house2 she is a wife who beareth children2 she is a wife whose husband is as her life2 she is a wife who is obedient to her lord4 ,the wife is half the man2 a wife is man's dearest friend2 a wife is the source of his religion1 his worldly profit1 and his love4 ,he who hath a wife maketh offerings in his house4 ,those who have wives are blest with good fortune4 ,wives are friends1 who1 by their kind and gentle speech1 soothe you in your retirement4 ,in your distresses they are as mothers1 and they are refreshment to those who are travellers in the rugged paths of life4 ,mahbhrata4 #bja4 ,he that is ambitious of fame destroys it4 ,he that increaseth not his knowledge diminishes it4 ,he that uses the crown of learning as an instrument of gain will pass away4 ,talmud4 #bjb4 ,while the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities1 while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence1 the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded2 and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives4 ,goldsmith4 #bjc4 ,it is impossible for those who are engaged in low and grovelling pursuits to entertain noble and generous sentiments4 ,their thoughts must always necessarily be somewhat similar to their employments4 ,demosthenes4 #bjd4 ,the interval is immense between corporeal qualifications and sciences3 the body in a moment is extinct1 but knowledge endureth to the end of time4 ,hitopadesa4 #bje4 ,if thou lackest knowledge1 what hast thou then acquired8 ,hast thou acquired knowledge1 what else dost thou want8 ,talmud4 #bjf4 ,be modest and simple in your deportment1 and treat with indifference whatever lies between virtue and vice4 ,love the human race2 obey ,god4 ,marcus ,aurelius4 #bjg4 ,bootless grief hurts a man's self1 but patience makes a jest of an injury4 ,r4 ,chamberlain4 #bjh4 ,poverty without debt is independence4 ,arabic4 #bji4 ,just as the track of birds that cleave the air ,is not discovered1 nor yet the path of fish ,that skim the water1 so the course of those ,who do good actions is not always seen4 ,mahbhrata4 #baj4 ,he who has wealth has friends2 he who has wealth has relations2 he who has wealth is a hero among the people2 he who has wealth is even a sage4 ,hitopadesa4 #baa4 ,like a beautiful flower1 full of colour but without scent1 are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly4 ,dhammapada4 #bab4 ,when men are doubtful of the true state of things1 their wishes lead them to believe in what is most agreeable4 ,arrianus4 #bac4 ,most men the good they have despise1 ,and blessings which they have not prize3 ,in winter1 wish for summer's glow1 ,in summer1 long for winter's snow4 ,sanskrit4 #bad4 ,the best conduct a man can adopt is that which gains him the esteem of others without depriving him of his own4 ,talmud4 #bae4 ,whoso associates with the wicked will be accused of following their ways1 though their principles may have made no impression upon him2 just as if a person were in the habit of frequenting a tavern1 he would not be supposed to go there for prayer1 but to drink intoxicating liquor4 ,sa'd4 #baf4 ,the loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure4 ,goethe4 #bag4 ,the dull-hued turkey apes the gait ,of lordly peacock1 richly plumed2 ,and thus the poetaster shows ,when he would fain his verse recite4 ,hindu ,poetess4 #bah4 ,knowledge acquired by a man of low degree places him on a level with a prince1 as a small river attains the irremeable ocean2 and his fortune is then exalted4 ,hitopadesa4 #bai4 ,an evil-minded man is quick to see ,his neighbour's faults1 though small as mustard seed2 ,but when he turns his eyes towards his own1 ,though large as bilva fruit1 he none descries4 ,mahbhrata4 #bbj4 ,two persons die remorseful3 he who possessed and enjoyed not1 and he who knew but did not practise4 ,sa'd4 #bba4 ,with regard to a secret divulged and kept concealed1 there is an excellent proverb1 that the one is an arrow still in our possession1 the other is an arrow sent from the bow4 ,jm4 #bbb4 ,the thing we want eludes our grasp1 ,some other thing is given2 sometimes ,our wish is gained1 and gifts unsought ,are ours2 these all are ,god's own work4 ,hindu ,poetess4 #bbc4 ,if a man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men1 and if another conquer himself1 he is the greater of conquerors4#aj ,dhammapada4 #aj ,cf4 ,prov4 ,,xvi1 #cb4 #bbd4 ,the man who is in the highest state of prosperity1 and who thinks his fortune is most secure1 knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening4 ,demosthenes4 #bbe4 ,amongst all possessions knowledge appears pre-eminent4 ,the wise call it supreme riches1 because it can never be lost1 has no price1 and can at no time be destroyed4 ,hitopadesa4 #bbf4 ,the shadows of the mind are like those of the body4 ,in the morning of life they all lie behind us1 at noon we trample them under foot1 and in the evening they stretch long1 broad1 and deepening before us4 ,longfellow4 #bbg4 ,he who is full of faith and modesty1 who shrinks from sin1 and is full of learning1 who is diligent1 unremiss1 and full of understanding--he1 being replete with these seven things1 is esteemed a wise man4 ,burmese4 #bbh4 ,if your foot slip1 you may recover your balance1 but if your tongue slip1 you cannot recall your words4 ,telugu4 #bbi4 ,a vacant mind is open to all suggestions1 as the hollow mountain returns all sounds4 ,chinese4 #bcj4 ,women are ever masters when they like1 ,and cozen with their kindness2 they have spells ,superior to the wand of the magicians2 ,and from their lips the words of wisdom fall1 ,like softest music on the listening ear4 ,firdaus4 #bca4 ,a man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife1 or anything that is worse than a bad one4 ,simonides4 #bcb4 ,the wife of bad conduct--constantly pleased with quarrelling--she is known by wise men to be cruel ,old ,age in the form of a wife4 ,panchatantra4 #bcc4 ,i have often thought that the cause of men's good or ill fortune depends on whether they make their actions fit with the times4 ,a man having prospered by one mode of acting can never be persuaded that it may be well for him to act differently1 whence it is that a man's ,fortune varies1 because she changes her times and he does not his ways4 ,machiavelli4 #bcd4 ,by nature all men are alike1 but by education very different4 ,chinese4 #bce4 ,whilom1 ere youth's conceit had waned1 methought ,answers to all life's problems ,i had wrought2 ,but now1 grown old and wise1 too late ,i see ,my life is spent1 and all my lore is nought4 ,omar ,khayym4 #bcf4 ,weak men gain their object when allied with strong associates3 the brook reaches the ocean by the river's aid4 ,mgha4 #bcg4 ,a swan is out of place among crows1 a lion among bulls1 a horse among asses1 and a wise man among fools4 ,burmese4 #bch4 ,whosoever does not persecute them that persecute him2 whosoever takes an offence in silence2 he who does good because of love2 he who is cheerful under his sufferings--these are the friends of ,god1 and of them the ,scripture says1 ,they shall shine forth like the sun at noontide4 ,talmud4 #bci4 ,it is intolerable that a silly fool1 with nothing but empty birth to boast of1 should in his insolence array himself in the merits of others1 and vaunt an honour which does not belong to him4 ,boileau4 #bdj4 ,ask not a man who his father was but make trial of his qualities1 and then conciliate or reject him accordingly4 ,for it is no disgrace to new wine1 if only it be sweet1 as to its taste1 that it was the juice or daughter of sour grapes4 ,arabic4 #bda4 ,the sun opens the lotuses1 the moon illumines the beds of water-lilies1 the cloud pours forth its water unasked3 even so the liberal of their own accord are occupied in benefiting others4 ,bhartrihari4 #bdb4 ,we blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth4 ,goethe4 #bdc4 ,men are so simple1 and yield so much to necessity1 that he who will deceive may always find him that will lend himself to be deceived4 ,machiavelli4 #bdd4 ,obstinate silence implies either a mean opinion of ourselves1 or a contempt for our company2 and it is the more provoking1 as others do not know to which of these causes to attribute it--whether humility or pride4 ,hazlitt4 #bde4 ,if thou desire not to be poor1 desire not to be too rich4 ,he is rich1 not that possesses much1 but he that covets no more2 and he is poor1 not that enjoys little1 but he that wants too much4 ,the contented mind wants nothing which it hath not2 the covetous mind wants1 not only what it hath not1 but likewise what it hath4 ,quarles4 #bdf4 ,those noble men who falsehood dread ,in wealth and glory ever grow1 ,as flames with greater brightness glow ,with oil in ceaseless flow when fed4 ,but like to flames with water drenched1 ,which1 faintly flickering1 die away1 ,so liars day by day decay1 ,till all their lustre soon is quenched4 ,sanskrit4 #bdg4 ,watch over thy expenditure1 for he who through vain glory spendeth uselessly what he hath on empty follies1 will receive neither return nor praise from anyone4 ,firdaus4 #bdh4 ,if thou art a man1 speak not much about thine own manliness1 for not every champion driveth the ball to the goal4 ,sa'd4 #bdi4 ,the potter forms what he pleases with soft clay1 so a man accomplishes his works by his own act4 ,hitopadesa4 #bej4 ,no man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery2 the good may feel affection for others1 but will not flatter them4 ,aristotle4 #bea4 ,an ass will with his long ears fray ,the flies that tickle him away2 ,but man delights to have his ears ,blown maggots in by flatterers4 ,butler4 #beb4 ,books are pleasant1 but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour1 two of the best things we have1 let us give it over4 ,i1 for my part1 am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss4 ,montaigne4 #bec4 ,he is happiest1 be he king or peasant1 who finds peace in his home4 ,goethe4 #bed4 ,if with a stranger thou discourse1 first learn1 ,by strictest observation1 to discern ,if he be wiser than thyself1 if so1 ,be dumb1 and rather choose by him to know2 ,but if thyself perchance the wiser be1 ,then do thou speak1 that he may learn by thee4 ,randolph4 #bee4 ,being continually in people's sight1 by the satiety which it creates1 diminishes the reverence felt for great characters4 ,livy4 #bef4 ,there is a great difference between one who can feel ashamed before his own soul and one who is only ashamed before his fellow men4 ,talmud4 #beg4 ,by rousing himself1 by earnestness1 by restraint and control the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm4 ,dhammapada4 #beh4 ,the best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so4 ,if we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us4 ,hazlitt4 #bei4 ,to form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few2 authority and example lead the rest of the world4 ,they see with the eyes of others1 they hear with the ears of others4 ,therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think2 but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one4 ,schopenhauer4 #bfj4 ,poesy is a beauteous damsel1 chaste1 honourable1 discreet1 witty1 retired1 and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety4 ,she is a friend of solitude2 fountains entertain her1 meadows console her1 woods free her from ennui1 flowers delight her2 in short1 she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates4 ,cervantes4 #bfa4 ,how can we learn to know ourselves8 ,by reflection1 never1 but by our actions4 ,attempt to do your duty1 and you will immediately find what is in you4 ,goethe4 #bfb4 ,man is supreme lord and master ,of his own ruin and disaster1 ,controls his fate1 but nothing less ,in ordering his own happiness3 ,for all his care and providence ,is too feeble a defence ,to render it secure and certain ,against the injuries of ,fortune2 ,and oft1 in spite of all his wit1 ,is lost by one unlucky hit1 ,and ruined with a circumstance1 ,and mere punctilio of a chance4 ,butler4 #bfc4 ,there is nothing in this world which a resolute man1 who exerts himself1 cannot attain4 ,somadeva4 #bfd4 ,ere need be shown1 some men will act1 ,as trees may fruit without a flower2 ,to some you speak with no result1 ,as seeds may die1 and yield no grain4 ,hindu ,poetess4 #bfe4 ,seven things characterise the wise man1 and seven the blockhead4 ,the wise man speaks not before those who are his superiors1 either in age or wisdom4 ,he interrupts not others in the midst of their discourse4 ,he replies not hastily4 ,his questions are relevant to the subject1 his answers1 to the purpose4 ,in delivering his sentiments he taketh the first in order first1 the last1 last4 ,what he understands not he says1 ,i understand not4 ,he acknowledges his error1 and is open to conviction4 ,the reverse of all this characterises the blockhead4 ,talmud4 #bff4 ,how absolute and omnipotent is the silence of the night6 ,and yet the stillness seems almost audible4 ,from all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half sound1 a half whisper1 as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of the earth and all created things in the great miracle of nature--decay and reproduction--ever beginning1 never ending--the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of ,time4 ,longfellow4 #bfg4 ,what avails your wealth1 if it makes you arrogant to the poor8 ,arabic4 #bfh4 ,all confidence is dangerous unless it is complete2 there are few circumstances in which it is not better either to hide all or to tell all4 ,la ,bruyre4 #bfi4 ,it is well that there is no one without a fault1 for he would not have a friend in the world3 he would seem to belong to a different species4 ,hazlitt4 #bgj4 ,the mind alike1 ,vigorous or weak1 is capable of culture1 ,but still bears fruit according to its nature4 ',tis not the teacher's skill that rears the scholar3 ,the sparkling gem gives back the glorious radiance ,it drinks from other light1 but the dull earth ,absorbs the blaze1 and yields no gleam again4 ,bhavabhti4 #bga4 ,one man envies the success in life of another1 and hates him in secret2 nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted1 except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling1 and there are1 alas1 few such men in the world4 ,a real friend1 on the other hand1 exults in his friend's happiness1 rejoices in all his joys1 and is ready to afford him the best advice4 ,herodotus4 #bgb4 ,this body is a tent which for a space ,does the pure soul with kingly presence grace2 ,when he departs1 comes the tent-pitcher1 ,death1 ,strikes it1 and moves to a new halting-place4 ,omar ,khayym4 #bgc4 ,speak but little1 and that little only when thy own purposes require it4 ,heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue1 which means3 listen to two things1 but be not the first to propose one4 ,hfiz4 #bgd4 ,the natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers2 so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended4 ,bhravi4 #bge4 ,he who toils with pain will eat with pleasure4 ,chinese4 #bgf4 ,a day of fortune is like a harvest-day1 we must be busy when the corn is ripe4 ,goethe4 #bgg4 ,the fame of good men's actions seldom goes beyond their own doors1 but their evil deeds are carried a thousand miles' distance4 ,chinese4 #bgh4 ,a subtle-witted man is like an arrow1 which1 rending little surface1 enters deeply1 but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force1 but never piercing4 ,mgha4 #bgi4 ,it is good to tame the mind1 which is difficult to hold in1 and flighty1 rushing wheresoever it listeth3 a tamed mind brings blessings4 ,dhammapada4 #bhj4 ,the man who every sacred science knows1 ,yet has not strength to keep in check the foes ,that rise within him1 mars his ,fortune's fame1 ,and brings her by his feebleness to shame4 ,bhravi4 #bha4 ,what a rich man gives and what he consumes1 that is his real worth4 ,hitopadesa4 #bhb4 ,he who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines4 ,goethe4 #bhc4 ,it is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold2 for as larks come down to a day-net1 many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing1 like silly passengers1 at an antic picture in a painter's shop that will not look at a judicious piece4 ,burton4 #bhd4 ,with many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought3 they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under the ground4 ,longfellow4 #bhe4 ,the doctrine that enters only into the ear is like the repast one takes in a dream4 ,chinese4 #bhf4 ,adorn thy mind with knowledge1 for knowledge maketh thy worth4 ,firdaus4 #bhg4 ,men hail the rising sun with glee1 ,they love his setting glow to see1 ,but fail to mark that every day ,in fragments bears their life away4 ,all ,nature's face delight to view1 ,as changing seasons come anew2 ,none sees how each revolving year ,abridges swiftly man's career4 ,ramyna4 #bhh4 ,the good man shuns evil and follows good2 he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden2 he makes his virtues manifest to all2 he does not forsake one in adversity2 he gives in season3 such are the marks of a worthy friend4 ,bhartrihari4 #bhi4 ,no one hath come into the world for a continuance save him who leaveth behind him a good name4#aa ,sa'd4 #aa ,cf4 #bi4 #bij4 ,gross ignorance produces a dogmatic spirit4 ,he who knows nothing thinks he can teach others what he has himself just been learning4 ,he who knows much scarcely believes that what he is saying is unknown to others1 and consequently speaks with more hesitation4 ,la ,bruyre4 #bia4 ,when you see a man elated with pride1 glorying in his riches and high descent1 rising even above fortune1 look out for his speedy punishment2 for he is only raised the higher that he may fall with a heavier crash4 ,menander4 #bib4 ,the ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain1 or fatal consequences2 thus1 an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter1 if it is not occasioned by pain4 ,aristotle4 #bic4 ,happy the man who early learns the difference between his wishes and his powers4 ,goethe4 #bid4 ,there is nothing more pitiable in the world than an irresolute man vacillating between two feelings1 who would willingly unite the two1 and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them4 ,goethe4 #bie4 ,beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance1 or like a sharp sword3 neither doth the one burn nor the other wound him that comes not too near them4 ,cervantes4 #bif4 ,we are more sociable and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect4 ,la ,bruyre4 #big4 ,a good man may fall1 but he falls like a ball and rebounds2 the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay4 ,bhartrihari4 #bih4 ,do not anxiously expect what is not yet come2 do not vainly regret what is already past4 ,chinese4 #bii4 ,the way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason2 thou shalt govern many if reason govern thee4 ,wouldst thou be a monarch of a little world1 command thyself4 ,quarles4 #cjj4 ,if our inward griefs were written on our brows1 how many who are envied now would be pitied4 ,it would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast1 and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming4 ,metastasio4 #cja4 ,there are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge1 and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation4 ,hazlitt4 #cjb4 ,whoever brings cheerfulness to his work1 and is ever active1 dashes through the world's labours4 ,tieck4 #cjc4 ,grossness is not difficult to define3 it is obtrusive and objectionable pleasantry4 ,theophrastus4 #cjd4 ,do not consider any vice as trivial1 and therefore practise it2 do not consider any virtue as unimportant1 and therefore neglect it4 ,chinese4 #cje4 ,to bad as well as good1 to all1 ,a generous man compassion shows2 ,on earth no mortal lives1 he knows1 ,who does not oft through weakness fall4 ,rmyana4 #cjf4 ,the good extend their loving care ,to men1 however mean or vile2 ,e'en base ,chndlas'#ab dwellings share ,th' impartial sunbeam's silver smile4 ,hitopadesa4 #ab ,chndlas1 or ,pariahs1 are the lowest1 or of no caste4 #cjg4 ,let a man accept with confidence valuable knowledge even from a person of low degree1 good instruction regarding duty even from a humble man1 and a jewel of a wife even from an ignoble family4 ,manu4 #cjh4 ,we cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world4 ,what important personages we imagine ourselves to be6 ,we think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move2 in our absence1 we fancy that life1 existence1 breath will come to a general pause1 and1 alas1 the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible1 so quickly is it filled again2 nay1 it is often the place1 if not of something better1 at least for something more agreeable4 ,goethe4 #cji4 ,the friendships formed between good and evil men differ4 ,the friendship of the good1 at first faint like the morning light1 continually increases2 the friendship of the evil at the very beginning is like the light of midday1 and dies away like the light of evening4#ac ,bhartrihari4 #ac ,in many parts of the ,east there is practically no twilight4 #caj4 ,a hundred long leagues is no distance for him who would quench the thirst of covetousness2 but a contented mind has no solicitude for grasping wealth4 ,hitopadesa4 #caa4 ,the noble-minded dedicate themselves to the promotion of the happiness of others--even of those who injure them4 ,true happiness consists in making happy4 ,bhravi4 #cab4 ,a benefit given to the good is like characters engraven on a stone2 a benefit given to the evil is like a line drawn on water4 ,buddhist4 #cac4 ,the undertaking of a careless man succeeds not1 though he use the right expedients3 a clever hunter1 though well placed in ambush1 kills not his quarry if he falls asleep4 ,bhravi4 #cad4 ,all love1 at first1 like generous wine1 ,ferments and frets until 'tis fine2 ,but when 'tis settled on the lee1 ,and from th' impurer matter free1 ,becomes the richer still the older1 ,and proves the pleasanter the colder4 ,butler4 #cae4 ,safe in thy breast close lock up thy intents1 ,for he that knows thy purpose best prevents4 ,randolph4 #caf4 ,frugality should ever be practised1 but not excessive parsimony4 ,hitopadesa4 #cag4 ,he who receives a favour must retain a recollection of it for all time to come2 but he who confers should at once forget it1 if he is not to show a sordid and ungenerous spirit4 ,to remind a man of a kindness conferred on him1 and to talk of it1 is little different from a reproach4 ,demosthenes4 #cah4 ,pride not thyself on thy religious works1 ,give to the poor1 but talk not of thy gifts3 ,by pride religious merit melts away1 ,the merit of thy alms1 by ostentation4 ,manu4 #cai4 ,the empty beds of rivers fill again2 ,trees leafless now renew their vernal bloom2 ,returning moons their lustrous phase resume2 ,but man a second youth expects in vain4#ad ,somadeva4 #ad ,cf4 ,job1 ,,xiv1 #g4 #cbj4 ,shall ,he to thee ,his aid refuse ,who clothes the swan in dazzling white1 ,who robes in green the parrot bright1 ,the peacocks decks in rainbow hues8#ae ,hitopadesa4 #ae ,cf4 ,matt4 ,,vi1 #be1 #bf4 #cba4 ,a bad man is as much pleased as a good man is distressed to speak ill of others4 ,mahbhrata4 #cbb4 ,every bird has its decoy1 and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way4 ,goethe4 #cbc4 ,there is such a grateful tickling in the mind of man in being commended that even when we know the praises which are bestowed on us are not our due1 we are not angry with the author's insincerity4 ,feltham4 #cbd4 ,too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief4 ,r4 ,chamberlain4 #cbe4 ,there is no remembrance which time doth not obliterate1 nor pain which death doth not put an end to4 ,cervantes4 #cbf4 ,look not mournfully into the ,past4 ,it comes not back again4 ,wisely improve the ,present4 ,it is thine4 ,go forth to meet the shadowy ,future1 without fear1 and with a manly heart4 ,longfellow4 #cbg4 ,plans that are wise and prudent in themselves are rendered vain when the execution of them is carried on negligently and with imprudence4 ,guicciardini4 #cbh4 ,every man stamps his value on himself4 ,the price we challenge for ourselves is given us4 ,man is made great or little by his own will4 ,schiller4 #cbi4 ,hath any wronged thee1 be bravely revenged4 ,slight it1 and the work's begun2 forgive it1 and 'tis finished4 ,he is below himself that is not above an injury4 ,quarles4 #ccj4 ,as gold is tried by the furnace1 and the baser metal shown1 so the hollow-hearted friend is known by adversity4 ,metastasio4 #cca4 ,the rose does not bloom without thorns4 ,true1 but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose4 ,richter4 #ccb4 ,truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect4 ,hazlitt4 #ccc4 ,most virgins marry1 just as nuns ,the same thing the same way renounce2 ,before they've wit to understand ,the bold attempt1 they take in hand2 ,or1 having stayed and lost their tides1 ,are out of season grown for brides4 ,butler4 #ccd4 ,the fountain of content must spring up in the mind1 and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts1 and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove4 ,johnson4 #cce4 ,in all things1 to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary4 ,to restrict yourself to a trade is best4 ,for the narrow mind1 whatever he attempts is still a trade2 for the higher1 an art2 and the highest in doing one thing does all1 or1 to speak less paradoxically1 in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly4 ,goethe4 #ccf4 ,misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character1 and1 thinking him to be truthful1 sincere1 and honourable1 finds a little afterwards that he is wicked1 faithless1 and then he meets with another of the same character4 ,when a man experiences this often1 and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends1 at last1 having frequently made a slip1 he hates the whole world1 and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them4 ,plato4 #ccg4 ,pleasure1 most often delusive1 may be born of delusion4 ,pleasure1 herself a sorceress1 may pitch her tents on enchanted ground4 ,but happiness 7or1 to use a more accurate and comprehensive term1 solid well-being7 can be built on virtue alone1 and must of necessity have truth for its foundation4 ,coleridge4 #cch4 ,entangled in a hundred worldly snares1 ,self-seeking men1 by ignorance deluded1 ,strive by unrighteous means to pile up riches4 ,then1 in their self-complacency1 they say1 ,this acquisition ,i have made to-day1 ,that will ,i gain to-morrow1 so much pelf ,is hoarded up already1 so much more ,remains that ,i have yet to treasure up4 ,this enemy ,i have destroyed1 him also1 ,and others in their turn1 ,i will despatch4 ,i am a lord2 ,i will enjoy myself2 ,i'm wealthy1 noble1 strong1 successful1 happy2 ,i'm absolutely perfect2 no one else ,in all the world can be compared to me4 ,now will ,i offer up a sacrifice1 ,give gifts with lavish hand1 and be triumphant4 ,such men1 befooled by endless vain conceits1 ,caught in the meshes of the world's illusion1 ,immersed in sensuality1 descend ,down to the foulest hell of unclean spirits4#af ,mahbhrata4 #af ,cf4 ,luke1 ,,xii1 #ag-bj2 see also #bia4 #cci4 ,there needs no other charm1 nor conjuror1 ,to raise infernal spirits up1 but ,fear1 ,that makes men pull their horns in1 like a snail1 ,that's both a prisoner to itself and jail2 ,draws more fantastic shapes than in the grains ,of knotted wood1 in some men's crazy brains1 ,when all the cocks they think they are1 and bulls1 ,are only in the insides of their skulls4 ,butler4 #cdj4 ,he that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way1 so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary1 and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration4 ,r4 ,chamberlain4 #cda4 ,the more weakness the more falsehood2 strength goes straight3 every cannon ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked4 ,richter4 #cdb4 ,learning dissipates many doubts1 and causes things otherwise invisible to be seen1 and is the eye of everyone who is not absolutely blind4 ,hitopadesa4 #cdc4 ,very distasteful is excessive fame ,to the sour palate of the envious mind1 ,who hears with grief his neighbours good by name1 ,and hates the fortune that he ne'er shall find4 ,pindar4 #cdd4 ,a more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this1 that when the injury began on his part the kindness should begin on ours4 ,tillotson4 #cde4 ,time1 which gnaws and diminishes all things else1 augments and increases benefits1 because a noble action of liberality done to a man of reason doth grow continually by his generously thinking of it and remembering it4 ,rabelais4 #cdf4 ,were all thy fond endeavours vain ,to chase away the sufferer's smart1 ,still hover near1 lest absence pain ,his lonely heart4 ,for friendship's tones have kindlier power ,than odorous fruit1 or nectared bowl1 ,to soothe1 in sorrow's languid hour1 ,the sinking soul4 ,sa'd4 #cdg4 ,the faults of others are easily perceived1 but those of oneself are difficult to perceive2 a man winnows his neighbour's faults like chaff1 but his own fault he hides as a cheat hides the false dice from the gamester4 ,dhammapada4 #cdh4 ,education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man4 ,aristotle4 #cdi4 ,toil and pleasure1 in their natures opposite1 are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection4 ,livy4 #cej4 ,enjoy thou the prosperity of others1 ,although thyself unprosperous2 noble men ,take pleasure in their neighbours' happiness4 ,mahbhrata4 #cea4 ,neither live with a bad man nor be at enmity with him2 even as if you take hold of glowing charcoal it will burn you1 if you take hold of cold charcoal it will soil you4 ,buddhist4 #ceb4 ,in the sandal-tree are serpents1 in the water lotus flowers1 but crocodiles also2 even virtues are marred by the vicious--in all enjoyments there is something which impairs our happiness4 ,hitopadesa4 #cec4 ,there is no pleasure of life sprouting like a tree from one root but there is some pain joined to it2 and again nature brings good out of evil4 ,menander4 #ced4 ,the manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself4 ,there is a princely manner of giving and accepting4 ,lavater4 #cee4 ,perfect ignorance is quiet1 perfect knowledge is quiet2 not so the transition from the former to the latter4 ,carlyle4 #cef4 ,superstition is the religion of feeble minds2 and they must be tolerated in an admixture of it in some trifling or enthusiastic shape or other2 else you will deprive weak minds of a resource found necessary to the strongest4 ,burke4 #ceg4 ,fair words without good deeds to a man in misery are like a saddle of gold clapped upon a galled horse4 ,chamberlain4 #ceh4 ,there is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty2 a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men--in the same level with mechanics1 though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies4 ,sir ,thomas ,browne4 #cei4 ,it is a common remark that men talk most who think least2 just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side4 ,richter4 #cfj4 ,our time is like our money2 when we change a guinea the shillings escape as things of small account2 when we break a day by idleness in the morning1 the rest of the hours lose their importance in our eyes4 ,sir ,walter ,scott4 #cfa4 ,vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person4 ,lavater4 #cfb4 ,wit and wisdom differ4 ,wit is upon the sudden turn1 wisdom is in bringing about ends4 ,selden4 #cfc4 ,real and solid happiness springs from moderation4 ,goethe4 #cfd4 ,in all the world there is no vice ,less prone t'excess than avarice2 ,it neither cares for food nor clothing3 ,nature's content with little1 that with nothing4 ,butler4 #cfe4 ,beside the streamlet seated1 mark how life glides on3 ,that sign1 how swift each moment goes1 to me's enough4 ,behold this world's delights1 and view its various pains3 ,if not to you1 the joy it shows to me's enough4 ,hfiz4 #cff4 ,the lake no longer water holds-- ,off fly the fowls1 the lilies stay3 ,if friends are friends when wealth is gone1 ,the lily's constancy they share4 ,hindu ,poetess4 #cfg4 ,let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom1 and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion4 ,aristotle4 #cfh4 ,all property which comes to hand by means of violence1 or infamy1 or baseness1 however large it may be1 is tainted and unblest4 ,on the other hand1 whatever is obtained by honest profit1 small though it be1 brings a blessing with it4#ag ,akhlak-i-,jall4 #ag ,see #dd4 #cfi4 ,we should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another4 ,goethe4 #cgj4 ,root out the love of self1 as you might the autumn lotus with your hand4 ,buddhist4 #cga4 ,whoever has the seed of virtue and honour implanted in his breast will drop a sympathising tear on the woes of his neighbour4 ,nakhshab4 #cgb4 ,do naught to others which1 if done to thee1 would cause thee pain3 this is the sum of duty4#ah ,mahbhrata4 #ah ,cf4 ,matt4 ,,vii1 #ab4 #cgc4 ,a bad man1 though raised to honour1 always returns to his natural course1 as a dog's tail1 though warmed by the fire and rubbed with oil1 retains its form4#ai ,hitopadesa4 #ai ,cf4 ,arab proverb3 ,a dog's tail never can be made straight4 #cgd4 ,the man who cannot blush1 and who has no feelings of fear1 has reached the acme of impudence4 ,menander4 #cge4 ,it is the usual consolation of the envious1 if they cannot maintain their superiority1 to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else4 ,plutarch4 #cgf4 ,such as the chain of causes we call ,fate1 such is the chain of wishes3 one links on to another2 the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever4 ,seneca4 #cgg4 ,i do remember stopping by the way1 ,to watch a potter thumping his wet clay2 ,and with its all-obliterated tongue ,it murmured1 ,gently1 brother1 gently1 pray6 ,omar ,khayym4 #cgh4 ,if you only knew the evils which others suffer1 you would willingly submit to those which you now bear4 ,philemon4 #cgi4 ,children form a bond of union than which the human heart finds none more enduring4 ,livy4 #chj4 ,the sweetest pleasures soonest cloy1 ,and its best flavour temperance gives to joy4 ,juvenal4 #cha4 ,to our own sorrows serious heed we give1 ,but for another's we soon cease to grieve4 ,pindar4 #chb4 ,can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our journey's end1 we should lay in the more provision for it8 ,cicero4 #chc4 ,set about whatever you intend to do2 the beginning is half the battle4 ,ausonius4 #chd4 ,all smatterers are more brisk and pert ,than those who understand an art2 ,as little sparkles shine more bright ,than glowing coals that gave them light4 ,butler4 #che4 ,no prince1 how great soever1 begets his predecessors1 and the noblest rivers are not navigable to the fountain4 ,a4 ,marvell4 #chf4 ,the guilty man may escape1 but he cannot be sure of doing so4 ,epicurus4 #chg4 ,in everything you will find annoyances1 but you ought to consider whether the advantages do not predominate4 ,menander4 #chh4 ,dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day4 ,herodotus4 #chi4 ,sleeping1 we image what awake we wish2 ,dogs dream of bones1 and fishermen of fish4#bj ,theocritus4 #bj ,cf4 ,arab proverb3 ,the dream of the cat is always about mice4 #cij4 ,a man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of4 ,we habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them4 ,it is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance1 as some attention to fashion is necessary4 ,hazlitt4 #cia4 ,there is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face1 and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life4 ,richter4 #cib4 ,from things which have been obtained after having been long desired men almost never derive the pleasure and delight which they had anticipated4 ,guicciardini4 #cic4 ,seest thou good days8 ,prepare for evil times4 ,no summer but hath its winter4 ,he never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity4 ,quarles4 #cid4 ,every man knows his own but not others' defects and miseries2 and 'tis the nature of all men still to reflect upon themselves their own misfortunes1 not to examine or consider other men's1 not to confer themselves with others2 to recount their own miseries but not their good gifts1 fortunes1 benefits which they have1 to ruminate on their adversity1 but not once to think on their prosperity1 not what they have but what they want4 ,burton4 #cie4 ,some people1 you would think1 are made up of nothing but title and genealogy2 the stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity1 and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below them to exercise good nature or good manners4 ,l',estrange4 #cif4 ,he alone is poor who does not possess knowledge4 ,talmud4 #cig4 ,it is not enough to know2 we must apply what we know4 ,it is not enough to will2 we must also act4 ,goethe4 #cih4 ,words of blame from those who are hostile to a great man cannot injure him4 ,the moon is not hurt when barked at by a dog4 ,arabic4 #cii4 ,the value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men3 youth1 by the old2 health1 by the diseased2 and wealth1 by the needy4 ,omar ,khayym4 #djj4 ,as one might nurse a tiny flame1 ,the able and far-seeing man1 ,e'en with the smallest capital1 ,can raise himself to wealth4 ,buddhist4 #dja4 ,by a husband wealth is accumulated2 by a wife is its preservation4 ,burmese4 #djb4 ,it is very hard for the mind to disengage itself from a subject on which it has been long employed4 ,the thoughts will be rising of themselves from time to time1 though we have given them no encouragement1 as the tossings and fluctuations of the sea continue several hours after the winds are laid4 ,addison4 #djc4 ,hypocrisy will serve as well ,to propagate a church as zeal2 ,as persecution and promotion ,do equally advance devotion3 ,so round white stones will serve1 they say1 ,as well as eggs1 to make hens lay4 ,butler4 #djd4 ,man differs from other animals particularly in this1 that he is imitative1 and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way2 besides1 the delight in imitation is universal4 ,aristotle4 #dje4 ,the hooting fowler seldom takes much game4 ,when a man has a project in his mind1 digested and fixed by consideration1 it is wise to keep it secret till the time that his designs arrive at their despatch and perfection4 ,he is unwise who brags much either of what he will do or what he shall have1 for if what he speaks of fall not out accordingly1 instead of applause1 a mock and scorn will follow him4 ,feltham4 #djf4 ,what is the most profitable8 ,fellowship with the good4 ,what is the worst thing in the world8 ,the society of evil men4 ,what is the greatest loss8 ,failure in one's duty4 ,where is the greatest peace8 ,in truth and righteousness4 ,who is the hero8 ,the man who subdues his senses4 ,who is the best beloved8 ,the faithful wife4 ,what is wealth8 ,knowledge4 ,what is the most perfect happiness8 ,staying at home4 ,bhartrihari4 #djg4 ,if a man says that it is right to give every one his due1 and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends1 he was not wise who said so1 for he spoke not the truth1 for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one4#ba ,plato4 #ba ,cf4 ,matt4 ,v1 #dc1 #dd4 #djh4 ,faith is like love1 it cannot be forced4 ,therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations2 for1 as the attempt to force love begets hatred1 so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief4 ,schopenhauer4 #dji4 ,we are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep2 our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward2 each pleasure is a rock2 the whole life is a wide ocean4 ,reason is the pilot to guide us1 but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride4 ,metastasio4 #daj4 ,empty is the house of a childless man2 as empty is the mind of a bachelor2 empty are all quarters of the world to an ignorant man2 but poverty is total emptiness4 ,hitopadesa4 #daa4 ,the wicked have no stability1 for they do not remain in consistency with themselves2 they continue friends only for a short time1 rejoicing in each other's wickedness4 ,aristotle4 #dab4 ,it is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour1 and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves4 ,demosthenes4 #dac4 ,a man ought not to return evil for evil1 as many think1 since at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbour4#bb ,plato4 #bb ,cf4 ,rom4 ,,xii1 #ai2 #a ,thess4 ,v1 #ae4 #dad4 ,in all that belongs to man you cannot find a greater wonder than memory4 ,what a treasury of all things6 ,what a record6 ,what a journal of all6 ,as if provident ,nature1 because she would have man circumspect1 had furnished him with an account-book1 to carry always with him4 ,yet it neither burthens nor takes up room4 ,feltham4 #dae4 ,he who will not freely and sadly confess that he is much a fool is all a fool4 ,fuller4 #daf4 ,the man with hoary head is not revered as aged by the gods1 but only he who has true knowledge2 he1 though young1 is old4 ,manu4 #dag4 ,no fathers and mothers think their own children ugly1 and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind4 ,cervantes4 #dah4 ,in thy apparel avoid singularity1 profuseness1 and gaudiness4 ,be not too early in the fashion1 nor too late4 ,decency is half way between affectation and neglect4 ,the body is the shell of the soul1 apparel is the husk of that shell2 the husk often tells you what the kernel is4 ,quarles4 #dai4 ,we have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history4 ,the vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other4 ,hazlitt4 #dbj4 ,it is easy to lose important opportunities1 and difficult to regain them2 therefore when they present themselves it is the more necessary to make every effort to retain them4 ,guicciardini4 #dba4 ,among wonderful things is a sore-eyed man who is an oculist4 ,arabic4 #dbb4 ,gold gives the appearance of beauty even to ugliness2 but everything becomes frightful with poverty4 ,boileau4 #dbc4 ,when the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason1 the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions4 ,r4 ,chamberlain4 #dbd4 ,idleness is a great enemy to mankind4 ,there is no friend like energy1 for1 if you cultivate that1 it will never fail4 ,bhartrihari4 #dbe4 ,the greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them4 ,goethe4 #dbf4 ,we must oblige everybody as much as we can2 we have often need of assistance from those inferior to ourselves4 ,la ,fontaine4 #dbg4 ,we magnify the wealthy man1 though his parts be never so poor4 ,the poor man we despise1 be he never so well qualified4 ,gold is the coverlet of imperfections4 ,it is the fool's curtain1 which hides all his defects from the world4 ,feltham4 #dbh4 ,there is nothing more operative than sedulity and diligence4 ,a man would wonder at the mighty things which have been done by degrees and gentle augmentations4 ,diligence and moderation are the best steps whereby to climb to any excellence1 nay1 it is rare that there is any other other way4 ,feltham4 #dbi4 ,in sooth1 it is a shame to choose rather to be still borrowing in all places1 from everybody1 than to work and win4 ,rabelais4 #dcj4 ,behaviour is a mirror in which every one shows his image4 ,goethe4 #dca4 ,there is nothing more daring than ignorance4 ,menander4 #dcb4 ,it is not easy to stop the fire when the water is at a distance2 friends at hand are better than relations afar off4 ,chinese4 #dcc4 ,the lustre of a virtuous character cannot be defaced1 nor can the vices of a vicious man ever become lucid4 ,a jewel preserves its lustre1 though trodden in the mud1 but a brass pot1 though placed upon the head1 is brass still4 ,panchatantra4 #dcd4 ,noble birth is an accident of fortune1 noble actions characterise the great4 ,goldoni4 #dce4 ,simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought4 ,hazlitt4 #dcf4 ,when anyone is modest1 not after praise1 but after censure1 then he is really so4 ,richter4 #dcg4 ,experience has always shown1 and reason shows1 that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed4 ,guicciardini4 #dch4 ,give not thy tongue too great a liberty1 lest it take thee prisoner4 ,a word unspoken is like thy sword in thy scabbard2 if vented1 the sword is in another's hand4#bc ,if thou desire to be held wise1 be so wise as to hold thy tongue4 ,quarles4 #bc ,cf4 #bba2 also ,metastasio3 ,voce dal fuggita ,poi richiamar non vale2 ,non si trattien lo strale ,quando dall' arco usc4 ,the word that once escapes the tongue cannot be recalled2 the arrow cannot be detained which has once sped from the bow4 #dci4 ,the old lose one of the greatest privileges of man1 for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries4 ,goethe4 #ddj4 ,when the man of a naturally good propensity has much wealth it injures his advancement in wisdom2 when a worthless man has much wealth it increases his faults4 ,chinese4 #dda4 ,in youth a man is deluded by other ideas than those which delude him in middle life1 and again in his decay he embraces other ideas4 ,mahbhrata4 #ddb4 ,to consider1 ,is this man of our own or an alien8 is a mark of little-minded persons2 but the whole earth is of kin to the generous-hearted4#bd ,panchatantra4 #bd ,cf4 ,luke1 ,x1 #bi1 ff4 #ddc4 ,skill in advising others is easily attained by men2 but to practise righteousness themselves is what only a few can succeed in doing4 ,hitopadesa4 #ddd4 ,hast thou not perfect excellence1 'tis best ,to keep thy tongue in silence1 for 'tis this ,which shames a man2 as lightness does attest ,the nut is empty1 nor of value is4 ,sa'd4 #dde4 ,understand a man by his deeds and words2 the impressions of others lead to false judgment4 ,talmud4 #ddf4 ,a man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind4 ,mgha4 #ddg4 ,there is no fire like passion2 there is no shark like hatred2 there is no snare like folly2 there is no torrent like greed4 ,dhammapada4 #ddh4 ,commit a sin twice1 and it will not seem to thee a sin4 ,talmud4 #ddi4 ,liberality attended with mild language2 learning without pride2 valour united with mercy2 wealth accompanied with a generous contempt of it--these four qualities are with difficulty acquired4 ,hitopadesa4 #dej4 ,inquire about your neighbour before you build1 and about your companions before you travel4 ,arabic4 #dea4 ,though you may yourself abound in treasure1 teach your son some handicraft2 for a heavy purse of gold and silver may run to waste1 but the purse of the artisan's industry can never get empty4 ,sa'd4 #deb4 ,it is an observation no less just than common that there is no stronger test of a man's real character than power and authority1 exciting1 as they do1 every passion1 and discovering every latent vice4 ,plutarch4 #dec4 ,rather skin a carcass for pay in the public streets than be idly dependent on charity4 ,talmud4 #ded4 ,knowledge produces mildness of speech2 mildness of speech1 a good character2 a good character1 wealth2 wealth1 if virtuous actions attend it1 happiness4 ,hitopadesa4 #dee4 ,o how wonderful is the human voice6 ,it is indeed the organ of the soul4 ,the intellect of man sits enshrined visibly upon his forehead and in his eye2 and the heart of man is written upon his countenance4 ,but the soul reveals itself in the voice only1 as ,god revealed himself to the prophet in the still small voice1 and in a voice from the ,burning ,bush4 ,the soul of man is audible1 not visible4 ,a sound alone betrays the flowing of the eternal fountain invisible to man4 ,longfellow4 #def4 ,every gift1 though small1 is in reality great1 if it be given with affection4#be ,philemon4 #be ,see also #hj4 #deg4 ,good words1 good deeds1 and beautiful expressions ,a wise man ever culls from every quarter1 ,e'en as a gleaner gathers ears of corn4 ,mahbhrata4 #deh4 ,in poverty and other misfortunes of life men think friends to be their only refuge4 ,the young they keep out of mischief1 to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness1 and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds4 ,aristotle4 #dei4 ,heed not the flatterer's fulsome talk1 ,he from thee hopes some trifle to obtain2 ,thou wilt1 shouldst thou his wishes baulk1 ,ten hundred times as much of censure gain4 ,sa'd4 #dfj4 ,by the fall of water-drops the pot is filled3 such is the increase of riches1 of knowledge1 and of virtue4 ,hitopadesa4 #dfa4 ,we deliberate about the parcels of life1 but not about life itself1 and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs1 and have the trouble of beginning all again4 ,and so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death1 but let death come suddenly upon us4 ,seneca4 #dfb4 ,it is no very good symptom1 either of nations or individuals1 that they deal much in vaticination4 ,happy men are full of the present1 for its bounty suffices them2 and wise men also1 for its duties engage them4 ,our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance1 but to do what clearly lies at hand4 ,carlyle4 #dfc4 ,law does not put the least restraint ,upon our freedom1 but maintain'st2 ,or1 if it does1 'tis for our good1 ,to give us freer latitude3 ,for wholesome laws preserve us free1 ,by stinting of our liberty4 ,butler4 #dfd4 ,it is only necessary to grow old in order to become more indulgent4 ,i see no fault committed that ,i have not been myself inclined to4 ,goethe4 #dfe4 ,even a blockhead may respect inspire1 ,so long as he is suitably attired2 ,a fool may gain esteem among the wise1 ,so long as he has sense to hold his tongue4 ,hitopadesa4 #dff4 ,a wise man should never resolve upon anything1 at least1 never let the world know his resolution1 for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed4#bf ,selden4 #bf ,see #djf4 #dfg4 ,men's minds are generally ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves4 ,livy4 #dfh4 ,prosperity is acquired by exertion1 and there is no fruit for him who doth not exert himself3 the fawns go not into the mouth of a sleeping lion4 ,hitopadesa4 #dfi4 ,wickedness1 by whomsoever committed1 is odious1 but most of all in men of learning2 for learning is the weapon with which ,satan is combated1 and when a man is made captive with arms in his hand his shame is more excessive4 ,sa'd4 #dgj4 ,he that will give himself to all manner of ways to get money may be rich2 so he that lets fly all he knows or thinks may by chance be satirically witty4 ,honesty sometimes keeps a man from growing rich1 and civility from being witty4 ,selden4 #dga4 ,men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire4 ,the only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence4 ,r4 ,chamberlain4 #dgb4 ,poverty is not dishonourable in itself1 but only when it arises from idleness1 intemperance1 extravagance1 and folly4 ,plutarch4 #dgc4 ,do nothing rashly2 want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster4 ,fortune1 wise lover of the wise1 selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects4 ,bhravi4 #dgd4 ,first think1 and if thy thoughts approve thy will1 ,then speak1 and after1 what thou speak'st fulfil4 ,randolph4 #dge4 ,it cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort3 the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought1 by the mere excitement of curiosity1 and sensibility1 may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading4 ,coleridge4 #dgf4 ,patience is the chiefest fruit of study2 a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good1 that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal4 ,selden4 #dgg4 ,friendship throws a greater lustre on prosperity1 while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and troubles4 ,cicero4 #dgh4 ,there is nothing more becoming a wise man than to make choice of friends1 for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art4 ,let them therefore be wise and virtuous1 and none of those that follow thee for gain2 but make election rather of thy betters than thy inferiors2 shunning always such as are poor and needy1 for if thou givest twenty gifts and refuse to do the like but once1 all that thou hast done will be lost1 and such men will become thy mortal enemies4 ,sir ,w4 ,raleigh1 to his ,son4 #dgi4 ,learning is like ,scanderbeg's sword1 either good or bad according to him who hath it3 an excellent weapon1 if well used2 otherwise1 like a sharp razor in the hand of a child4 ,r4 ,chamberlain4 #dhj4 ,the greater part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable4 ,la ,bruyre4 #dha4 ,i hate the miser1 whose unsocial breast ,locks from the world his useless stores4 ,wealth by the bounteous only is enjoyed1 ,whose treasures1 in diffusive good employed1 ,the rich return of fame and friends procure1 ,and 'gainst a sad reverse a safe retreat secure4 ,pindar4 #dhb4 ,wisdom alone is the true and unalloyed coin for which we ought to exchange all things1 for this and with this everything is bought and sold--fortitude1 temperance1 and justice2 in a word1 true virtue subsists with wisdom4 ,plato4 #dhc4 ,if thou intendest to do a good act1 do it quickly1 and then thou wilt excite gratitude2 a favour if it be slow in being conferred causes ingratitude4 ,ausonius4 #dhd4 ',tis those who reverence the old ,that are the men versed in the ,faith2 ,worthy of praise while in this life1 ,and happy in the life to come4 ,buddhist4 #dhe4 ,low-minded men are occupied solely with their own affairs1 but noble-minded men take special interest in the affairs of others4 ,the submarine fire drinks up the ocean1 to fill its insatiable interior2 the rain-cloud1 that it may relieve the drought of the earth1 burnt up by the hot season4 ,bhartrihari4 #dhf4 ,those men are wise who do not desire the unattainable1 who do not love to mourn over what is lost1 and are not overwhelmed by calamities4 ,mahbhrata4 #dhg4 ,let him take heart who does advance1 even in the smallest degree4 ,plato4 #dhh4 ,a truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child4#bg ,chinese4 #bg ,cf4 ,pope1 in his ,epitaph on the poet ,gay3 ,of manners gentle1 of affections mild2 ,in wit a man1 simplicity1 a child4 #dhi4 ,if thou desirest ease in this life1 keep thy secrets undisclosed1 like the modest rosebud4 ,take warning from that lovely flower1 which1 by expanding its hitherto hidden beauties when in full bloom1 gives its leaves and its happiness to the winds4 ,persian4 #dij4 ,a husband is the chief ornament of a wife1 though she have no other ornament2 but1 though adorned1 without a husband she has no ornaments4 ,hitopadesa4 #dia4 ,he who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many branches and few roots1 which the first wind throws down2 whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches1 which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot4 ,talmud4 #dib4 ,he that would build lastingly must lay his foundation low4 ,the proud man1 like the early shoots of a new-felled coppice1 thrusts out full of sap1 green in leaves1 and fresh in colour1 but bruises and breaks with every wind1 is nipped with every little cold1 and1 being top-heavy1 is wholly unfit for use4 ,whereas the humble man retains it in the root1 can abide the winter's killing blast1 the ruffling concussions of the wind1 and can endure far more than that which appears so flourishing4 ,feltham4 #dic4 ,the man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato--the only good belonging to him is underground4 ,sir ,thos4 ,overbury4 #did4 ,when men will not be reasoned out of a vanity1 they must be ridiculed out of it4 ,l',estrange4 #die4 ,women are ever in extremes1 they are either better or worse than men4 ,la ,bruyre4 #dif4 ,an absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness4 ,goethe4 #dig4 ,the man of worth is really great without being proud2 the mean man is proud without being really great4 ,chinese4 #dih4 ,liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment4 ,la ,bruyre4 #dii4 ,outward perfection without inward goodness sets but the blacker dye on the mind's deformity4 ,r4 ,chamberlain4 #ejj4 ,as a solid rock is not shaken by the wind1 so wise men falter not amidst blame or praise4 ,dhammapada4 #eja4 ,of what avail is the praise or censure of the vulgar1 who make a useless noise like a senseless crow in a forest8 ,mahbhrata4 #ejb4 ,hark6 here the sound of lute so sweet1 ,and there the voice of wailing loud2 ,here scholars grave in conclave meet1 ,there howls the brawling drunken crowd2 ,here1 charming maidens full of glee1 ,there1 tottering1 withered dames we see4 ,such light6 ,such shade6 ,i cannot tell1 ,if here we live in heaven or hell4 ,bhartrihari4 #ejc4 ,the every-day cares and duties which men call drudgery are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of ,time1 giving its pendulum a true vibration1 and its hands a regular motion2 and when they cease to hang upon the wheels1 the pendulum no longer sways1 the hands no longer move1 the clock stands still4 ,longfellow4 #ejd4 ,a man of little learning deems that little a great deal2 a frog1 never having seen the ocean1 considers its well a great sea4 ,burmese4 #eje4 ,trust not thy secret to a confidant1 for he too will have his associates and friends2 and it will spread abroad through the whole city1 and men will call thee weak-headed4 ,firdaus4 #ejf4 ,labour like a man1 and be ready in doing kindnesses4 ,he is a good-for-nothing fellow who eateth by the toil of another's hand4 ,sa'd4#bh #bh ,see also #dbi1 #dec4 #ejg4 ,let every man sweep the snow from before his own doors1 and not busy himself about the frost on his neighbour's tiles4 ,chinese4 #ejh4 ,with knowledge1 say1 what other wealth ,can vie1 which neither thieves by stealth ,can take1 nor kinsmen make their prey1 ,which1 lavished1 never wastes away4 ,sanskrit4 #eji4 ,women's wealth is beauty1 learning1 that of men4 ,burmese4 #eaj4 ,prosperity attends the lion-hearted man who exerts himself1 while we say1 destiny will ensure it4 ,laying aside destiny1 show manly fortitude by thy own strength3 if thou endeavour1 and thy endeavours fail of success1 what crime is there in failing8 ,hitopadesa4 #eaa4 ,spare not1 nor spend too much1 be this thy care1 ,spare but to spend1 and only spend to spare4 ,who spends too much may want1 and so complain2 ,but he spends best that spares to spend again4 ,randolph4 #eab4 ,everything that is acknowledges the blessing of existence4 ,shalt not thou1 by a similar acknowledgment1 be happy8 ,if thou pay due attention to sounds1 thou shalt hear the praise of the ,creator celebrated by the whole creation4 ,nakhshab4 #eac4 ,the attribute most noble of the hand ,is readiness in giving2 of the head1 ,bending before a teacher2 of the mouth1 ,veracious speaking2 of a victor's arms1 ,undaunted valour2 of the inner heart1 ,pureness the most unsullied2 of the ears1 ,delight in hearing and receiving truth--,these are adornments of high-minded men1 ,better than all the majesty of ,empire4 ,bhartrihari4 #ead4 ,the mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy1 which brings in its bosom as many vain fears as idle hopes1 but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror4 ,von ,humboldt4 #eae4 ,stupidity has its sublime as well as genius1 and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it1 which is always a source of pleasure to sensible people4 ,wieland4 #eaf4 ,it is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought4 ,each subsiding century reveals some new mystery2 we build where monsters used to hide themselves4 ,longfellow4 #eag4 ,women never reason and therefore they are1 comparatively1 seldom wrong4 ,they judge instinctively of what falls under their immediate observation or experience1 and do not trouble themselves about remote or doubtful consequences4 ,if they make no profound discoveries1 they do not involve themselves in gross absurdities4 ,it is only by the help of reason and logical inference1 according to ,hobbes1 that man becomes excellently wise or excellently foolish4 ,hazlitt4 #eah4 ,reprove not in their wrath incensd men1 ,good counsel comes clean out of season then2 ,but when his fury is appeased and past1 ,he will conceive his fault and mend at last3 ,when he is cool and calm1 then utter it2 ,no man gives physic in the midst o' th' fit4 ,randolph4 #eai4 ,it is not flesh and blood1 it is the heart1 that makes fathers and sons4 ,schiller4 #ebj4 ,discontent is like ink poured into water1 which fills the whole fountain full of blackness4 ,it casts a cloud over the mind1 and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it4 ,feltham4 #eba4 ,we are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand1 and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies4 ,goethe4 #ebb4 ,a just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence1 but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of4 ,it heightens all the virtues which it accompanies2 like the shades of paintings1 it raises and rounds every figure1 and makes the colours more beautiful1 though not so glowing as they would be without it4 ,addison4 #ebc4 ,happy the man who lives at home1 making it his business to regulate his desires4 ,la ,fontaine4 #ebd4 ,it is true that men are no fit judges of themselves1 because commonly they are partial to their own cause2 yet it is as true that he who will dispose himself to judge indifferently of himself can do it better than any body else1 because a man can see farther into his own mind and heart than any one else can4 ,harrington4 #ebe4 ,envy is a vice that would pose a man to tell what it should be liked for4 ,other vices we assume for that we falsely suppose they bring us either pleasure1 profit1 or honour4 ,but in envy who is it can find any of these8 ,instead of pleasure1 we vex and gall ourselves4 ,like cankered brass1 it only eats itself1 nay1 discolours and renders it noisome4 ,when some one told ,agis that those of his neighbour's family did envy him1 ,why1 then1 says he1 they have a double vexation--one1 with their own evil1 the other1 at my prosperity4 ,feltham4 #ebf4 ,the most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves4 ,they fancy themselves superior to every one else1 and1 not being sure of making good their secret pretensions1 decline entering the lists altogether4 ,thus they lay the flattering unction to their souls that they could have said better things than others1 or that the conversation was beneath them4 ,hazlitt4 #ebg4 ,it is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbours4 ,socrates paid for his superiority with his life2 and if ,aristotle saved his skin1 accused as he was of heresy by the chief priest ,eurymedon1 it was because he took to his heels in time4 ,wieland4 #ebh4 ,flattery may be considered as a mode of companionship1 degrading but profitable to him who flatters4 ,theophrastus4 #ebi4 ,rich presents1 though profusely given1 ,are not so dear to righteous ,heaven ,as gifts by honest gains supplied1 ,though small1 which faith hath sanctified4 ,mahbhrata4 #ecj4 ,to-day is thine to spend1 but not to-morrow2 ,counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow3 ,o squander not this breath that ,heaven hath lent thee2 ,make not too sure another breath to borrow4 ,omar ,khayym4 #eca4 ,leave not the business of to-day to be done to-morrow2 for who knoweth what may be thy condition to-morrow8 ,the rose-garden1 which to-day is full of flowers1 when to-morrow thou wouldst pluck a rose1 may not afford thee one4 ,firdaus4 #ecb4 ,virtue beameth from a generous spirit as light from the moon1 or as brilliancy from ,jupiter4 ,nizm4 #ecc4 ,the worth of a horse is known by its speed1 the value of oxen by their carrying power1 the worth of a cow by its milk-giving capacity1 and that of a wise man by his speech4 ,burmese4 #ecd4 ,men of genius are often dull and inert in society1 as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone4 ,longfellow4 #ece4 ,if a man die young he hath left us at dinner2 it is bed-time with a man of three score and ten2 and he that lives a hundred years hath walked a mile after supper4 ,this life is but one day of three meals1 or one meal of three courses--childhood1 youth1 and old age4 ,to sup well is to live well1 and that's the way to sleep well4 ,overbury4 #ecf4 ,there is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune1 and nothing melts away sooner than a great one4 ,poverty treads upon the heels of great and unexpected riches4 ,la ,bruyre4 #ecg4 ,society is a more level surface than we imagine4 ,wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with1 as there are few giants or dwarfs4 ,the heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace4 ,our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it1 or have paid most attention to it2 whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by4 ,hazlitt4 #ech4 ,it is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life4 ,whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations1 and even suffering1 can never feel that he is armour-proof against painful emotions2 nay1 he must attribute to himself1 or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature1 every disagreeable feeling he may suffer4 ,von ,humboldt4 #eci4 ,petrarch observes1 that we change language1 habits1 laws1 customs1 manners1 but not vices1 not diseases1 not the symptoms of folly and madness--they are still the same4 ,and as a river1 we see1 keeps the like name and place1 but not water1 and yet ever runs1 our times and persons alter1 vices are the same1 and ever be4 ,look how nightingales sang of old1 cocks crowed1 kine lowed1 sheep bleated1 sparrows chirped1 dogs barked1 so they do still3 we keep our madness still1 play the fool still2 we are of the same humours and inclinations as our predecessors were2 you shall find us all alike1 much as one1 we and our sons1 and so shall our posterity continue to the last4 ,burton4 #edj4 ,the mother of the useful arts is necessity1 that of the fine arts is luxury2 for father the former have intellect1 the latter1 genius1 which itself is a kind of luxury4 ,schopenhauer4 #eda4 ,the fool who knows his foolishness is wise so far1 at least2 but a fool who thinks himself wise1 he is called a fool indeed4 ,dhammapada4 #edb4 ,he who mixes with unclean things becomes unclean himself2 he whose associations are pure becomes purer each day4 ,talmud4 #edc4 ,heaven's gate is narrow and minute1#bi ,it cannot be perceived by foolish men1 ,blinded by vain illusions of the world4 ,e'en the clear-sighted1 who discern the way ,and seek to enter1 find the portal barred ,and hard to be unlocked4 ,its massive bolts ,are pride and passion1 avarice and lust4 ,mahbhrata4 #bi ,cf4 ,matt4 ,,vii1 #ad4 #edd4 ,eschew that friend1 if thou art wise1 who consorts with thy enemies4 ,sa'd4 #ede4 ,who can tell ,men's hearts8 ,the purest comprehend ,such contradictions1 and can blend ,the force to bear1 the power to feel1 ,the tender bud1 the tempered steel4 ,hindu ,drama4 #edf4 ,whosoever hath not knowledge1 and benevolence1 and piety knoweth nothing of reality1 and dwelleth only in semblance4 ,sa'd4 #edg4 ,if thou shouldst find thy friend in the wrong reprove him secretly1 but in the presence of company praise him4 ,arabic4 #edh4 ,modesty is attended with profit1 arrogance brings on destruction4 ,chinese4 #edi4 ,the greatest hatred1 like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs1 is quiet4 ,richter4 #eej4 ,is a preface exquisitely written8 ,no literary morsel is more delicious4 ,is the author inveterately dull8 ,it is a kind of preparatory information1 which may be very useful4 ,it argues a deficiency of taste to turn over an elaborate preface unread3 for it is the attar of the author's roses1 every drop distilled at an immense cost4 ,it is the reason of the reasoning1 and the folly of the foolish4 ,isaac ,d',israeli4 #eea4 ,vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident1 ignorance1 or authority2 natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself4 ,hazlitt4 #eeb4 ,lament not ,fortune's mutability1 ,and seize her fickle favours ere they flee2 ,if others never mourned departed bliss1 ,how should a turn of ,fortune come to thee8 ,omar ,khayym4 #eec4 ,harsh reproof is like a violent storm1 soon washed down the channel2 but friendly admonitions1 like a small shower1 pierce deep1 and bring forth better reformation4 ,r4 ,chamberlain4 #eed4 ,there are braying men in the world as well as braying asses2 for what's loud and senseless talking1 huffing1 and swearing any other than a more fashionable way of braying8 ,l',estrange4 #eee4 ,all wit and fancy1 like a diamond1 ,the more exact and curious 'tis ground1 ,is forced for every carat to abate ,as much of value as it wants in weight4 ,butler4 #eef4 ,listen1 if you would learn2 be silent1 if you would be safe4 ,arabic4 #eeg4 ,all such distinctions as tend to set the orders of the state at a distance from each other are equally subversive of liberty and concord4 ,livy4 #eeh4 ,no man is the wiser for his learning4 ,it may administer matter to work in1 or objects to work upon1 but wit and wisdom are born with a man4 ,selden4 #eei4 ,those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans2 those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods4 ,herodotus4 #efj4 ,whosoever lends a greedy ear to a slanderous report is either himself of a radically bad disposition or a mere child in sense4 ,menander4 #efa4 ,a foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof4 ,r4 ,chamberlain4 #efb4 ,a lively blockhead in company is a public benefit4 ,silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom4 ,hazlitt4 #efc4 ,eminent positions make eminent men greater and little men less4 ,la ,bruyre4 #efd4 ,scratch yourself with your own nails2 always do your own business1 and when you intend asking for a service1 go to a person who can appreciate your merit4 ,arabic4 #efe4 ,the beauty of some women has days and seasons1 depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it2 nay1 the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it1 and very often utterly destroy it4 ,cervantes4 #eff4 ,no joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child4 ,richter4 #efg4 ,want and sorrow are the gifts which folly earns for itself4 ,schubert4 #efh4 ,in character1 in manners1 in style1 in all things1 the supreme excellence is simplicity4 ,longfellow4 #efi4 ,those who cause dissensions in order to injure other people are preparing pitfalls for their own ruin4 ,chinese4 #egj4 ,such deeds as thou with fear and grief ,wouldst1 on a sick-bed laid1 recall1 ,in youth and health eschew them all1 ,remembering life is frail and brief4 ,mahbhrata4 #ega4 ,a man should not keep company with one whose character1 family1 and abode are unknown4 ,panchatantra4 #egb4 ,sit not down to the table before thy stomach is empty1 and rise before thou hast filled it4 ,arabic4 #egc4 ,if thou be rich1 strive to command thy money1 lest it command thee4 ,quarles4 #egd4 ,in all companies there are more fools than wise men1 and the greater part always gets the better of the wiser4 ,rabelais4 #ege4 ,talents are best nurtured in solitude2 character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world4 ,goethe4 #egf4 ,no one ought to despond in adverse circumstances1 for they may turn out to be the cause of good to us4#cj ,menander4 #cj ,cf4 ,job ,v1 #ag2 ,heb4 ,,xii1 #f4 #egg4 ,the constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune4 ,a torch may point towards the ground1 but its flame will still point upwards4 ,bhartrihari4 #egh4 ,a man should never despise himself1 for brilliant success never attends on the man who is contemned by himself4 ,mahbhrata4 #egi4 ,it is the character of a simpleton to be a bore4 ,a man of sense sees at once whether he is welcome or tiresome2 he knows to withdraw the moment that precedes that in which he would be in the least in the way4 ,la ,bruyre4 #ehj4 ,the man of first rate excellence is virtuous in spite of instruction2 he of the middle class is so after instruction2 the lowest order of men are vicious in spite of instruction4 ,chinese4 #eha4 ,not to attend at the door of the wealthy1 and not to use the voice of petition--these constitute the best life of a man4 ,hitopadesa4 #ehb4 ,what a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power4 ,just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself1 or how high it is capable of rising2 or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water4 ,schopenhauer4 #ehc4 ,comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information2 but1 to be quite fair1 we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter4 ,speech is often barren1 but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest4 ,your still fowl1 blinking at you without remark1 may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg2 and1 when it takes to cackling1 will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion4 ,george ,eliot4 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