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A. Clouston + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Book of Wise Sayings + Selected Largely from Eastern Sources + +Author: W. A. Clouston + +Release Date: April 18, 2007 [EBook #21130] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BOOK OF WISE SAYINGS *** + + + + +Produced by Bill Tozier, Barbara Tozier and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + <div id="the_beginning"> </div> + <div id="frontmatter"> + <div id="title_page"> + <h1>BOOK OF<br /> + <span class="main_title">WISE SAYINGS</span></h1> + <p class="subtitle">SELECTED LARGELY FROM EASTERN SOURCES</p> + <p class="stopword">BY</p> + <p class="book_author">W. A. CLOUSTON</p> + <p class="authors_works">Author of “Popular Tales and Fictions,” “Literary + Coincidences, and other Papers,” “Flowers + from a Persian Garden,” etc.</p> + <div id="epigram_1" class="epigram"> + <p>“Concise sentences, like darts, fly abroad and make impressions, + while long discourses are tedious and not regarded.”—<span class="epigram_source">Bacon.</span></p> + </div> + <div id="epigram_2" class="poem epigram"> + <p>“Many are the sayings of the wise,</p> + <p>In ancient and in modern books enrolled.”—<span class="epigram_source">Milton.</span></p> + </div> + <div id="publishing_info"> + <p class="publisher"><span class="pub_city">LONDON</span><br /> + Published by HUTCHINSON & CO.<br /> + <span class="publisher_address">AT 34 PATERNOSTER ROW</span><br /> + <span class="published_year">1893</span></p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="printers_page"> + <p>PRINTED AT NIMEGUEN (HOLLAND)<br /> + BY H. C. A. THIEME OF NIMEGUEN (HOLLAND)<br /> + AND<br /> + TALBOT HOUSE, ARUNDEL STREET<br /> + LONDON, W.C.</p> + </div> + <div id="dedication"> + <p>TO<br /> + <span class="dedicatee">FRANCIS THORNTON BARRETT,</span><br /> + <span class="dedicatee_title">CHIEF LIBRARIAN,</span><br /> + <span class="dedicatee_location">MITCHELL LIBRARY, GLASGOW,</span><br /> + <span class="dedicated_object">This Little Book,</span><br /> + WITH FRIENDLY GREETINGS,<br /> + <span class="inscription">IS INSCRIBED.</span> + </p> + <!-- [Blank Page] --> + </div> + </div> + <div id="preface"> + <h2 class="section_title"><a class="pagenum" id="page_v" title="v"></a>PREFACE.</h2> + <p><span class="first_word">Cynics</span> may ask, how many have profited by + the innumerable proverbs and maxims of + prudence which have been current in the world + time out of mind? They will say that their only + use is to repeat them after some unhappy wight + has “gone wrong.” When, for instance, a man has + played “ducks and drakes” with his money, the + fact at once calls up the proverb which declares + that “wilful waste leads to woful want”; but did not + the “waster” know this well-worn saying from + his early years <em>downwards</em>? What good, then, did + it do him? Again, how many have been benefited + by the saying of the ancient Greek poet, that + “evil communications corrupt good manners”?—albeit + they had it frequently before them in their + school “copy-books.” Are the maxims of morality + useless, then, because they are so much disregarded?</p> + <p>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 years, and + has cause to regret, as well as wonder, that he had + not all along followed their wholesome teaching. + <a class="pagenum" id="page_vi" title="vi"></a>For it is to the young, who are about to cross + the threshold of active life, that such terse convincing + sentences are more especially addressed, and, spite + of the proverbial heedlessness of youth, there will + be found many who are not deaf to this kind of + instruction, if their moral environment be favourable. + But, even after the spring-time of youth is past, + there are occasions when the mind is peculiarly + susceptible to the force of a pithy maxim, which + may tend to the reforming of one’s way of life. + There is commonly more practical wisdom in a + striking aphorism than in a round dozen of “goody” + books—that is to say, books which are not good + in the highest sense, because their themes are + overlaid with commonplace and wearisome reflections.</p> + <p>May we not find the “whole duty of man” + condensed into a few brief sentences, which have + been expressed by thoughtful men in all ages and in + countries far apart?—such as: “Love thy neighbour + as thyself,” “Do unto others as ye would that they + should do unto you.” The chief themes of all + teachers of morality are: benevolence and beneficence; + tolerance of the opinions of others; self-control; the + acquisition of knowledge—that jewel beyond price; + the true uses of wealth; the advantages of resolute, + manly exertion; the dignity of labour; the futility + of worldly pleasures; the fugacity of time; man’s + individual insignificance. They are never weary of + inculcating taciturnity in preference to loquacity, and + the virtues of patience and resignation. They iterate + and reiterate the fact that true happiness is to be + found only in contentment; and they administer consolation + and infuse hope by reminding us that as + dark days are followed by bright days, so times of + bitter adversity are followed by seasons of sweet + <a class="pagenum" id="page_vii" title="vii"></a>prosperity; and thus, like the immortal Sir Hudibras, + when “in doleful dumps”, we may “cheer ourselves + with ends of verse, and sayings of philosophers.”</p> + <p>In the following small selection of aphorisms, + a considerable proportion are drawn from Eastern + literature. Indian wisdom is represented by passages + from the great epics, the <i>Mahābhārata</i> and the + <i>Rāmāyana</i>; the <i>Panchatantra</i> and the <i>Hitopadesa</i>, + two Sanskrit versions of the famous collection of + apologues known in Europe as the Fables of Bidpaï, + or Pilpay; the <i>Dharma-sastra</i> of Manu; Bhāravi, + Māgha, Bhartrihari, and other Hindu poets. Specimens + of the mild teachings of Buddha and his more + notable followers are taken from the <i>Dhammapada</i> + (Path of Virtue) and other canonical works; pregnant + sayings of the Jewish Fathers, from the Talmud; + Moslem moral philosophy is represented by extracts + from Arabic and Persian writers (among the great + poets of Persia are, Firdausī, Sa’dī, Hāfiz, Nizāmī, + Omar Khayyām, Jāmī); while the proverbial wisdom + of the Chinese and the didactic writings of the + sages of Burmah are also occasionally cited.</p> + <p>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 Testaments, 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 + apostles.</p> + <p>Among English writers of aphorisms Francis + Bacon, Lord Verulam, is pre-eminent, but none + of his pithy sentences find place here, because + they are procurable in many inexpensive forms, + <a class="pagenum" id="page_viii" title="viii"></a>(<i>e.g.</i>, <i>Counsels from my Lord Bacon</i>, 1892), and + must be familiar to what is termed “the average + general reader.” <i>The Enchiridion</i> of Frances Quarles + and the <i>Resolves</i> of Owen Feltham are, however, + laid under contribution, as also Robert Chamberlain, + an author who is probably unknown to many + pluming themselves on their thorough acquaintance + with English literature, some of whose aphorisms + (published in 1638, under the title of <i>Nocturnal + Lucubrations</i>) I have deemed worthy of reproduction.</p> + <p>In more modern times, with the sole exception + of William Hazlitt, our country has produced no very + successful writer of aphorisms. Colton’s <i>Lacon; + or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to + Those who Think</i>, went through several editions + soon after its first publication in 1820; it is + described by Mr. John Morley—and not unfairly—as + being “so vapid, so wordy, so futile as to have + a place among those books which dispense with + parody”; it is “an awful example to anyone who + is tempted to try his hand at an aphorism.” + Mr. Morley is hardly less severe in speaking of the + “Thoughts” in <i>Theophrastus Such</i>: “the most + insufferable of all deadly-lively prosing in our sublunary + world.” However this may be, assuredly other + works of the author of <i>Adam Bede</i> will be found + to furnish many examples of admirable apothegms.</p> + <p>It only remains to add that, bearing in mind + that a great collection of gravities commonly proves + quite as wearisome reading as a large compilation + of gaieties, or facetiæ, I have confined my selection + of “sayings of the wise” within the limits of a + pocket-volume.</p> + <p class="author_sign">W. A. C.</p> + </div> + <h2 class="internal_title"><a class="pagenum" id="page1" title="1"></a>BOOK OF WISE SAYINGS.</h2> + <div id="sayings_1-30"> + <div id="saying_1" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">1.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> enemies which rise within the body, + hard to be overcome—thy evil passions—should + manfully be fought: he who + conquers these is equal to the conquerors + of worlds.</p> + <p class="source">Bhāravi.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_2" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">2.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> passion gaineth the mastery over reason, + the wise will not count thee amongst + men.</p> + <p class="source">Firdausī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_3" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">3.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Knowledge</span> is destroyed by associating + with the base; with equals equality + is gained, and with the distinguished, + distinction.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_4" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">4.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Dost</span> thou desire that thine own heart + should not suffer, redeem thou the + sufferer from the bonds of misery.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_5" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page2" title="2"></a>5.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">To</span> friends and eke to foes true kindness show;</p> + <p>No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do;</p> + <p class="i2">Harshness will alienate a bosom friend.</p> + <p>And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Omar Khayyām.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_6" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">6.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> is no greater grief in misery + than to turn our thoughts back to + happier times.*</p> + <p class="source">Dante.</p> + + <div id="footnote_1" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. Goldsmith:</p> + <div class="poem"> + <p>O Memory! thou fond deceiver,</p> + <p class="i2">Still importunate and vain;</p> + <p>To former joys recurring ever,</p> + <p class="i2">And turning all the past to pain.</p> + </div> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_7" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">7.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">We</span> in reality only know when we doubt + a little. With knowledge comes doubt.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_8" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">8.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> the hour of adversity be not without + hope, for crystal rain falls from black + clouds.</p> + <p class="source">Nizāmī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_9" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">9.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">One</span> common origin unites us all, but + every sort of wood does not give the + perfume of the lignum aloes.</p> + <p class="source">Arabic.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_10" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page3" title="3"></a>10.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">I</span> asked an experienced elder who had + profited by his knowledge of the world, + “What course should I pursue to obtain + prosperity?” He replied, “Contentment—if + you are able, practise contentment.”</p> + <p class="source">Selman.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_11" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">11.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Every</span> moment that a man may be in + want of employment, than such I hold + him to be far better who is forced to labour + for nothing.</p> + <p class="source">Afghan.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_12" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">12.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> foolish undertake a trifling act, and + soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage + in mighty works, and persevere.</p> + <p class="source">Māgha.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_13" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">13.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Those</span> who wish well towards their + friends disdain to please them with + words which are not true.</p> + <p class="source">Bhāravi.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_14" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">14.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Reason</span> is captive in the hands of + the passions, as a weak man in the + hands of an artful woman.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_15" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">15.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Like</span> an earthen pot, a bad man is easily + broken, and cannot readily be restored + to his former situation; but a virtuous man, + like a vase of gold, is broken with difficulty, + and easily repaired.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_16" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page4" title="4"></a>16.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> son who delights his father by his + good actions; the wife who seeks only + her husband’s good; the friend who is the + same in prosperity and adversity—these three + things are the reward of virtue.</p> + <p class="source">Bhartrihari.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_17" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">17.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Let</span> us not overstrain our abilities, or + we shall do nothing with grace. A + clown, whatever he may do, will never + pass for a gentleman.</p> + <p class="source">La Fontaine.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_18" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">18.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">To</span> abstain from speaking is regarded as + very difficult. It is not possible to + say much that is valuable and striking.*</p> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + <div id="footnote_2" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. James, <span class="bible_chapter">III</span>, 8.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_19" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">19.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Pagodas</span> are, like mosques, true houses of prayer;</p> + <p>’Tis prayer that church bells waft upon the air;</p> + <p class="i2">Kaaba and temple, rosary and cross,</p> + <p>All are but divers tongues of world-wide prayer.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Omar Khayyām.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_20" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">20.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> no wise ask about the faults of others, + for he who reporteth the faults of others + will report thine also.</p> + <p class="source">Firdausī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_21" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page5" title="5"></a>21.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">He</span> that holds fast the golden mean,</p> + <p>And lives contentedly between</p> + <p class="i2">The little and the great,</p> + <p>Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,</p> + <p>Nor plagues that haunt the rich man’s door,</p> + <p class="i2">Embittering all his state.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Horace.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_22" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">22.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Nothing</span> is more becoming a man + than silence. It is not the preaching + but the practice which ought to be considered + as the more important. A profusion + of words is sure to lead to error.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_23" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">23.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Consider</span>, and you will find that + almost all the transactions of the time + of Vespasian differed little from those of + the present day. You there find marrying + and giving in marriage, educating children, + sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, + agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, + laying of plots, longing for the death + of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men + canvassing for consulship—yet all these + passed away, and are nowhere.</p> + <p class="source">M. Aurelius.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_24" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">24.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> friendship of the bad is like the + shade of some precipitous bank with + crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him + who is beneath.</p> + <p class="source">Bhāravi.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_25" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page6" title="6"></a>25.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">His</span> action no applause invites</p> + <p>Who simply good with good repays;</p> + <p class="i2">He only justly merits praise</p> + <p>Who wrongful deeds with kind requites.*</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Panchatantra.</p> + <div id="footnote_3" class="footnote"> + <p>* Matt. <span class="bible_chapter">V</span>, 43, 44.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_26" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">26.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Death</span> comes, and makes a man his prey,</p> + <p class="i2">A man whose powers are yet unspent;</p> + <p class="i2">Like one on gathering flowers intent,</p> + <p>Whose thoughts are turned another way.</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Begin betimes to practise good,</p> + <p class="i2">Lest fate surprise thee unawares</p> + <p class="i2">Amid thy round of schemes and cares;</p> + <p>To-morrow’s task to-day conclude.*</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + <div id="footnote_4" class="footnote"> + <p>* Eccles. <span class="bible_chapter">IX</span>, 10; <span class="bible_chapter">XII</span>, 1.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_27" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">27.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Let</span> a man’s talents or virtues be what + they may, we feel satisfaction in his + society only as he is satisfied in himself. + We cannot enjoy the good qualities of a + friend if he seems to be none the better + for them.</p> + <p class="source">Hazlitt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_28" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">28.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> was a false maxim of Domitian that + he who would gain the people of Rome + <a class="pagenum" id="page7" title="7"></a>must promise all things and perform nothing. + For when a man is known to be false in + his word, instead of a column, which he + might be by keeping it, for others to rest + upon, he becomes a reed, which no man + will vouchsafe to lean upon. Like a floating + island, when we come next day to seek it, + it is carried from the place we left it in, + and, instead of earth to build upon, we + find nothing but inconstant and deceiving + waves.</p> + <p class="source">Feltham.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_29" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">29.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> is not dead who departs this life + with high fame; dead is he, though + living, whose brow is branded with infamy.</p> + <p class="source">Tieck.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_30" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">30.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> the height of thy prosperity expect + adversity, but fear it not. If it come + not, thou art the more sweetly possessed + of the happiness thou hast, and the more + strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the + more gently dispossessed of the happiness + thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.</p> + <p class="source">Quarles.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_31-60"> + <div id="saying_31" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">31.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> prudent man will not discover his + poverty, his self-torments, the disorders + of his house, his uneasiness, or his + disgrace.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_32" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page8" title="8"></a>32.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Men</span> are of three different capacities: + one understands intuitively; another + understands so far as it is explained; and + a third understands neither of himself nor + by explanation. The first is excellent, the + second, commendable, and the third, altogether + useless.</p> + <p class="source">Machiavelli.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_33" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">33.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is difficult to understand men, but still + harder to know them thoroughly.</p> + <p class="source">Schiller.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_34" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">34.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Worldly</span> fame and pleasure are destructive + to the virtue of the mind; + anxious thoughts and apprehensions are + injurious to the health of the body.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_35" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">35.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Alas</span>, for him who is gone and hath + done no good work! The trumpet of + march has sounded, and his load was not + bound on.</p> + <p class="source">Persian.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_36" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">36.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Human</span> experience, like the stern-lights + of a ship at sea, illumines only the + path which we have passed over.</p> + <p class="source">Coleridge.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_37" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">37.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Man</span> is an actor who plays various parts:</p> + <p>First comes a boy, then out a lover starts;</p> + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page9" title="9"></a>His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar’s rags;</p> + <p>Then he’s a merchant with full money-bags;</p> + <p>Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean;</p> + <p>At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.*</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Bhartrihari.</p> + <div id="footnote_5" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. Shakspeare:</p> + <p>“All the world’s a stage,” etc.—<i>As You Like It</i>, + Act <span class="act_number">II</span>, <i>sc.</i> 7.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_38" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">38.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Through</span> avarice a man loses his + understanding, and by his thirst for + wealth he gives pain to the inhabitants of + both worlds.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_39" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">39.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Men</span> soon the faults of others learn,</p> + <p class="i2">A few their virtues, too, find out;</p> + <p class="i2">But is there one—I have a doubt—</p> + <p>Who can his own defects discern?</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Sanskrit.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_40" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">40.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> learning, age and youth go for nothing; + the best informed take the precedence.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_41" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">41.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Mention</span> not a blemish which is thy + own in detraction of a neighbour.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_42" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">42.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Affairs</span> succeed by patience, and he + that is hasty falleth headlong.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_43" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page10" title="10"></a>43.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> man who has learnt little grows old + like an ox: his flesh grows, but his + knowledge does not grow.</p> + <p class="source">Dhammapada.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_44" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">44.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Unsullied</span> poverty is always happy, + while impure wealth brings with it + many sorrows.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_45" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">45.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Both</span> white and black acknowledge women’s sway,</p> + <p class="i2">So much the better and the wiser too,</p> + <p>Deeming it most convenient to obey,</p> + <p class="i2">Or possibly they might their folly rue.*</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Persian.</p> + <div id="footnote_6" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. Pope:</p> + <div class="poem"> + <p>Would men but follow what the sex advise,</p> + <p>All things would prosper, all the world grow wise.</p> + </div> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_46" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">46.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">We</span> are never so much disposed to + quarrel with others as when we + are dissatisfied with ourselves.</p> + <p class="source">Hazlitt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_47" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">47.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">No</span> one is more profoundly sad than he + who laughs too much.</p> + <p class="source">Richter.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_48" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">48.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> heaven that rolls around cries aloud + to you while it displays its eternal + beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon + the earth alone.</p> + <p class="source">Dante.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_49" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page11" title="11"></a>49.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">This</span> world is a beautiful book, but of + little use to him who cannot read it.</p> + <p class="source">Goldoni.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_50" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">50.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Sorrows</span> are like thunder-clouds: in + the distance they look black, over our + heads, hardly gray.</p> + <p class="source">Richter.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_51" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">51.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> gem cannot be polished without friction, + nor man perfected without trials.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_52" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">52.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Health</span> is the greatest gift, contentedness + the best riches.</p> + <p class="source">Dhammapada.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_53" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">53.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Great</span> and unexpected successes are + often the cause of foolish rushing into + acts of extravagance.</p> + <p class="source">Demosthenes.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_54" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">54.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Let</span> none with scorn a suppliant meet,</p> + <p class="i2">Or from the door untended spurn</p> + <p>A dog; an outcast kindly treat;</p> + <p class="i2">And so thou shalt be blest in turn.</p> + </div> + <p class="source"><span class="errata" title="Original reads Mahhābhārata">Mahābhārata.</span></p> + </div> + <div id="saying_55" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">55.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Choose</span> knowledge, if thou desirest a + blessing from the Universal Provider; + for the ignorant man cannot raise himself + above the earth, and it is by knowledge + <a class="pagenum" id="page12" title="12"></a>that thou must render thy soul praiseworthy.</p> + <p class="source">Firdausī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_56" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">56.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Good</span> fortune is a benefit to the wise, + but a curse to the foolish.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_57" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">57.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> this thing one man is superior to + another, that he is better able to bear + adversity and prosperity.</p> + <p class="source">Philemon.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_58" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">58.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> rays of happiness, like those of light, + are colourless when unbroken.</p> + <p class="source">Longfellow.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_59" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">59.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> are three things which, in great + quantity, are bad, and, in little, very + good: leaven, salt, and liberality.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_60" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">60.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Who</span> aims at excellence will be above + mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity + will be far short of it.</p> + <p class="source">Burmese.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_61-90"> + <div id="saying_61" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">61.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Keep</span> thy heart afar from sorrow, and + be not anxious about the trouble + which is not yet come.</p> + <p class="source">Firdausī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_62" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">62.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> thy garments be clean and thy heart be + foul, thou needest no key to the door + of hell.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_63" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page13" title="13"></a>63.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">We</span> ought never to mock the wretched, + for who can be sure of being + always happy?</p> + <p class="source">La Fontaine.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_64" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">64.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">To</span> those who err in judgment, not in + will, anger is gentle.</p> + <p class="source">Sophocles.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_65" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">65.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Not</span> only is the old man twice a child, + but also the man who is drunk.</p> + <p class="source">Plato.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_66" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">66.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Wrapt</span> up in error is the human mind,</p> + <p class="i2">And human bliss is ever insecure;</p> + <p>Know we what fortune yet remains behind?</p> + <p class="i2">Know we how long the present shall endure?</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Pindar.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_67" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">67.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> wise man adapts himself to circumstances, + as water shapes itself to the + vessel that contains it.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_68" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">68.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> who formerly was reckless and afterwards + became sober brightens up this + world like the moon when freed from clouds.</p> + <p class="source">Dhammapada.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_69" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">69.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">When</span> a base fellow cannot vie with + another in merit he will attack him + with malicious slander.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_70" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page14" title="14"></a>70.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> a man be not so happy as he desires, + let this be his comfort—he is not so + wretched as he deserves.</p> + <p class="source">R. Chamberlain.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_71" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">71.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> conversation humour is more than wit, + easiness, more than knowledge; few + desire to learn, or to think they need it; + all desire to be pleased, or, if not, to be + easy.</p> + <p class="source">Sir W. Temple.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_72" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">72.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> greatest men sometimes overshoot + themselves, but then their very mistakes + are so many lessons of instruction.</p> + <p class="source">Tom Browne.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_73" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">73.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">We</span> may be as good as we please, if + we please to be good.</p> + <p class="source">Barrow.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_74" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">74.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> round of a passionate man’s life + is in contracting debts in his passion + which his virtue obliges him to pay. He + spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, + injury and reparation.</p> + <p class="source">Johnson.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_75" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">75.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">To</span> reprehend well is the most necessary + and the hardest part of friendship. + Who is it that does not sometimes merit + <a class="pagenum" id="page15" title="15"></a>a check, and yet how few will endure one? + Yet wherein can a friend more unfold his + love than in preventing dangers before + their birth, or in bringing a man to safety + who is travelling on the road to ruin? I + grant there is a manner of reprehending + which turns a benefit into an injury, and + then it both strengthens error and wounds + the giver. When thou chidest thy wandering + friend do it secretly, in season, in love, + not in the ear of a popular convention, + for oftentimes the presence of a multitude + makes a man take up an unjust defence, + rather than fall into a just shame.</p> + <p class="source">Feltham.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_76" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">76.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">I</span> put no account on him who esteems + himself just as the popular breath may + chance to raise him.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_77" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">77.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> who seeks wealth sacrifices his own + pleasure, and, like him who carries + burdens for others, bears the load of anxiety.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_78" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">78.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Circumspection</span> in calamity; mercy + in greatness; good speeches in assemblies; + fortitude in adversity: these are the + self-attained perfections of great souls.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_79" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page16" title="16"></a>79.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> best preacher is the heart; the best + teacher is time; the best book is the + world; the best friend is God.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_80" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">80.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> woman will not throw away a garland, + though soiled, which her lover gave: not + in the object lies a present’s worth, but in the + love which it was meant to mark.</p> + <p class="source">Bhāravi.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_81" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">81.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Men</span> who have not observed discipline, + and have not gained treasure in their + youth, perish like old herons in a lake + without fish.</p> + <p class="source">Dhammapada.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_82" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">82.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">As</span> drops of bitter medicine, though minute, + may have a salutary force, so words, + though few and painful, uttered seasonably, + may rouse the prostrate energies of those who + meet misfortune with despondency.</p> + <p class="source">Bhāravi.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_83" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">83.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> are three whose life is no life: he + who lives at another’s table; he whose + wife domineers over him; and he who suffers + bodily affliction.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_84" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">84.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Let</span> thy words between two foes be such + that if they were to become friends + thou shouldst not be ashamed.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_85" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page17" title="17"></a>85.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">An</span> indiscreet man is more hurtful than an + ill-natured one; for as the latter will + only attack his enemies, and those he wishes + ill to, the other injures indifferently both + his friends and foes.</p> + <p class="source">Addison.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_86" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">86.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">A</span> man of quick and active wit</p> + <p>For drudgery is more unfit,</p> + <p>Compared to those of duller parts,</p> + <p>Than running nags are to draw carts.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Butler.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_87" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">87.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">All</span> affectation is the vain and ridiculous + attempt of poverty to appear rich.</p> + <p class="source">Lavater.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_88" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">88.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> never was, there never will be, + a man who is always praised, or a + man who is always blamed.</p> + <p class="source">Dhammapada.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_89" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">89.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> good man’s intellect is piercing, yet + inflicts no wound; his actions are deliberate, + yet bold; his heart is warm, but + never burns; his speech is eloquent, yet + ever true.</p> + <p class="source">Māgha.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_90" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">90.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> who can feel ashamed will not + readily do wrong.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_91-120"> + <div id="saying_91" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page18" title="18"></a>91.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> stranger who is kind is a kinsman; + an unkind kinsman is a stranger.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_92" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">92.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">The</span> good to others kindness show,</p> + <p class="i2">And from them no return exact;</p> + <p>The best and greatest men, they know,</p> + <p class="i2">Thus ever nobly love to act.*</p> + </div> + <p class="source"><span class="errata" title="Original reads Mahābāhrata.">Mahābhārata.</span></p> + <div id="footnote_7" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. Luke, <span class="bible_chapter">VI</span>, 34, 35.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_93" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">93.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Trees</span> loaded with fruit are bent down; + the clouds when charged with fresh + rain hang down near the earth: even so + good men are not uplifted through prosperity. + Such is the natural character of + the liberal.</p> + <p class="source">Bhartrihari.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_94" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">94.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> man who neither gives in charity + nor enjoys his wealth, which every + day increases, breathes, indeed, like the + bellows of a smith, but cannot be said to + live.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_95" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">95.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">That</span> energy which veils itself in mildness + is most effective of its object.</p> + <p class="source">Māgha.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_96" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page19" title="19"></a>96.</h3> + <p>Our writings are like so many dishes, + our readers, our guests, our books, + like beauty—that which one admires another + rejects; so we are approved as men’s fancies + are inclined.... As apothecaries, we make + new mixtures every day, pour out of one + vessel into another; and as those old + Romans robbed all cities of the world to + set out their bad-cited Rome, we skim off + the cream of other men’s wits, pick the + choice flowers of their tilled gardens, to + set out our own sterile plots. We weave + the same web still, twist the same rope + again and again; or, if it be a new invention, + ’tis but some bauble or toy, which + idle fellows write, for as idle fellows to read.*</p> + <p class="source">Burton.</p> + <div id="footnote_8" class="footnote"> + <p>* Ferriar has pointed out, in his <i>Illustrations of Sterne</i>, + how these passages from Burton’s <i>Anatomy of Melancholy</i> + have been boldly plagiarised in the introduction to the + fragment on Whiskers in <i>Tristram Shandy</i>: “Shall we for + ever make new books as apothecaries make new mixtures, + by only pouring out of one vessel into another? Are we + for ever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope?” + And Dr. Johnson, who was a great admirer of Burton, + adopts the illustration of the plundering Romans in his + <i>Rambler</i>, No. 143.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_97" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">97.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is our follies that make our lives + uncomfortable. Our errors of opinion, + our cowardly fear of the world’s worthless + <a class="pagenum" id="page20" title="20"></a>censure, and our eagerness after unnecessary + gold have hampered the way of virtue, + and made it far more difficult than, in itself, + it is.</p> + <p class="source">Feltham.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_98" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">98.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> is not half so much danger in + the desperate sword of a known foe + as in the smooth insinuations of a pretended + friend.</p> + <p class="source">R. Chamberlain.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_99" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">99.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Nothing</span> is so oppressive as a secret; + it is difficult for ladies to keep it + long, and I know even in this matter a + good number of men who are women.</p> + <p class="source">La Fontaine.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_100" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">100.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">All</span> kinds of beauty do not inspire + love: there is a kind of it which + pleases only the sight, but does not captivate + the affections.</p> + <p class="source">Cervantes.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_101" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">101.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Contentment</span> consisteth not in heaping + more fuel, but in taking away + some fire.</p> + <p class="source">Fuller.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_102" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">102.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is difficult to personate and act a part + long, for where truth is not at the bottom + Nature will always be endeavouring to + return, and will peep out and betray herself + one time or other.</p> + <p class="source">Tillotson.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_103" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page21" title="21"></a>103.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">The</span> truest characters of ignorance</p> + <p>Are vanity, pride, and arrogance;</p> + <p>As blind men use to bear their noses higher</p> + <p>Than those that have their eyes and sight entire.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Butler.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_104" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">104.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is better to be well deserving without + praise than to live by the air of undeserved + commendation.</p> + <p class="source">R. Chamberlain.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_105" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">105.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> travels safe and not unpleasantly + who is guarded by poverty and guided + by love.</p> + <p class="source">Sir P. Sidney.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_106" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">106.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Never</span> put thyself in the way of temptation: + even David could not resist + it.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_107" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">107.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Pride</span> is a vice which pride itself + inclines every man to find in others + and overlook in himself.</p> + <p class="source">Johnson.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_108" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">108.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">By</span> six qualities may a fool be known: + anger, without cause; speech, without + profit; change, without motive; inquiry, + without an object; trust in a stranger; and + incapacity to discriminate between friend + and foe.</p> + <p class="source">Arabic.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_109" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page22" title="22"></a>109.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Men</span> are not to be judged by their + looks, habits, and appearances, but + by the character of their lives and conversations. + ’Tis better that a man’s own + works than another man’s words should + praise him.</p> + <p class="source">Sir R. L’Estrange.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_110" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">110.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">To</span> exert his power in doing good is + man’s most glorious task.</p> + <p class="source">Sophocles.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_111" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">111.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Those</span> who are skilled in archery bend + their bow only when they are prepared + to use it; when they do not require + it they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise + it would be unserviceable when the + time for using it arrived. So it is with man. + If he were to devote himself unceasingly + to a dull round of business, without breaking + the monotony by cheerful amusements, he + would fall imperceptibly into idiotcy, or be + struck with paralysis.</p> + <p class="source">Herodotus.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_112" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">112.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Blinded</span> by self-conceit and knowing nothing,</p> + <p>Like elephant infatuate with passion,</p> + <p>I thought within myself, I all things knew;</p> + <p>But when by slow degrees I somewhat learnt</p> + <p>By aid of wise preceptors, my conceit,</p> + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page23" title="23"></a>Like some disease, passed off; and now I live</p> + <p>In the plain sense of what a fool I am.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Bhartrihari.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_113" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">113.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Time</span> is the most important thing in + human life, for what is pleasure after + the departure of time? and the most consolatory, + since pain, when pain has passed, + is nothing. Time is the wheel-track in which + we roll on towards eternity, conducting us + to the Incomprehensible. In its progress + there is a ripening power, and it ripens us + the more, and the more powerfully, when + we duly estimate it. Listen to its voice, do + not waste it, but regard it as the highest + finite good, in which all finite things are + resolved.</p> + <p class="source">Von Humboldt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_114" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">114.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">All</span> that we are is made up of our + thoughts; it is founded on our thoughts, + it is made up of our thoughts. If a man + speak or act with a pure thought, happiness + will follow him, like a shadow that never + leaves him.</p> + <p class="source">Dhammapada.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_115" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">115.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Depend</span> not <span class="errata" title="Original reads an">on</span> another, rather lean</p> + <p>Upon thyself; trust to thine own exertions:</p> + <p>Subjection to another’s will gives pain;</p> + <p>True happiness consists in self-reliance.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Manu.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_116" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page24" title="24"></a>116.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> the friendship of the good be interrupted, + their minds admit of no long + change; as when the stalks of a lotus are + broken the filaments within them are more + visibly cemented.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_117" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">117.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Anger</span> that has no limit causes terror, + and unseasonable kindness does away + with respect. Be not so severe as to cause + disgust, nor so lenient as to make people + presume.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_118" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">118.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Be</span> patient, if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; + for like patience is there + no appliance effective of success, producing + certainly abundant fruit of actions, never + damped by failure, conquering all impediments.</p> + <p class="source">Bhāravi.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_119" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">119.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">As</span> rain breaks through an ill-thatched + house, passion breaks through an unreflecting + mind.</p> + <p class="source">Dhammapada.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_120" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">120.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Most</span> men, even the most accomplished, + are of limited faculties; every one + sets a value on certain qualities in himself + and others: these alone he is willing to + favour, these alone will he have cultivated.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_121-150"> + <div id="saying_121" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page25" title="25"></a>121.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Poverty</span>, we may say, surrounds a man + with ready-made barriers, which if they + do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least + prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort + of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though + a circuitous, course. A great part of his + guidance is secure against fatal error, is + withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, + has his whole life to guide, without goal + or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, + tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.</p> + <p class="source">Carlyle.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_122" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">122.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">By</span> Fate full many a heart has been undone,</p> + <p>And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone;</p> + <p class="i2">Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength:</p> + <p>Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Omar Khayyām.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_123" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">123.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> best thing is to be respected, the + next, is to be loved; it is bad to be + hated, but still worse to be despised.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_124" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">124.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">To</span> be envied is a nobler fate than to be + pitied.</p> + <p class="source">Pindar.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_125" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page26" title="26"></a>125.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">He</span> only does not live in vain</p> + <p>Who all the means within his reach</p> + <p class="i2">Employs—his wealth, his thought, his speech—</p> + <p>T’advance the weal of other men.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Sanskrit.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_126" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">126.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> you injure a harmless person, the evil + will fall back upon you, like light dust + thrown up against the wind.</p> + <p class="source">Buddhist.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_127" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">127.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> the life of every man there are sudden + transitions of feeling, which seem almost + miraculous. At once, as if some magician + had touched the heavens and the earth, + the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind + falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The + causes which produce these changes may + have been long at work within us, but the + changes themselves are instantaneous, and + apparently without sufficient cause.</p> + <p class="source">Longfellow.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_128" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">128.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Man</span> is an intellectual animal, therefore + an everlasting contradiction to himself. + His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach + to the ends of the universe; so that he is + torn in pieces between the two without + the possibility of its ever being otherwise. A + <a class="pagenum" id="page27" title="27"></a>mere physical being or a pure spirit can + alone be satisfied with itself.</p> + <p class="source">Hazlitt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_129" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">129.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">The</span> pure in heart, who fear to sin,</p> + <p>The good, kindly in word and deed—</p> + <p>These are the beings in the world</p> + <p>Whose nature should be called divine.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Buddhist.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_130" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">130.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> thou desirest that the pure in heart + should praise thee, lay aside anger; + be not a man of many words; and parade + not thy virtues in the face of others.</p> + <p class="source">Firdausī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_131" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">131.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> wise man takes a step at a time; he + establishes one foot before he takes + up the other: an old place should not be + forsaken recklessly.</p> + <p class="source">Sanskrit.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_132" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">132.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> fish dwell in the depths of the + waters, and the eagles in the sides + of heaven; the one, though high, may be + reached with the arrow, and the other, + though deep, with the hook; but the heart + of man at a foot’s distance cannot be known.*</p> + <p class="source">Burmese.</p> + <div id="footnote_9" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. Proverbs, <span class="bible_chapter">XXV</span>, 3.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_133" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page28" title="28"></a>133.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> life of man is the incessant walk + of nature, wherein every moment is a + step towards death. Even our growing to + perfection is a progress to decay. Every + thought we have is a sand running out of + the glass of life.</p> + <p class="source">Feltham.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_134" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">134.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">I</span> have observed that as long as a man + lives and exerts himself he can always + find food and raiment, though, it may be, + not of the choicest description.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_135" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">135.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> are no riches like the sweetness + of content, nor poverty comparable + to the want of patience.</p> + <p class="source">R. Chamberlain.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_136" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">136.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">’Tis</span> not for gain, for fame, from fear</p> + <p class="i2">That righteous men injustice shun,</p> + <p>And virtuous men hold virtue dear:</p> + <p>An inward voice they seem to hear,</p> + <p class="i2">Which tells them duty must be done.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_137" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">137.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">As</span> far and wide the vernal breeze</p> + <p>Sweet odours waft from blooming trees,</p> + <p>So, too, the grateful savour spreads</p> + <p>To distant lands of virtuous deeds.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Sanskrit.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_138" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page29" title="29"></a>138.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> this world, however little happiness may + have been our portion, yet have we no + desire to die. Whether he can speak of + life as cheerful and delicate, or as full of + pain, anxiety, and sorrow, never yet have + I seen one who wished to die.</p> + <p class="source">Firdausī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_139" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">139.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">When</span> morning silvers the dark firmament,</p> + <p>Why shrills the bird of dawning his lament?</p> + <p class="i2">It is to show in dawn’s bright looking-glass</p> + <p>How of thy careless life a night is spent.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Omar Khayyām.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_140" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">140.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Be</span> thou generous, and gentle, and forgiving; + as God hath scattered upon thee, + scatter thou upon others.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_141" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">141.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> the body restraint is good; good is + restraint in speech; in thought restraint + is good: good is restraint in all things.</p> + <p class="source">Dhammapada.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_142" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">142.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Men</span> say that everyone is naturally a + lover of himself, and that it is right + that it should be so. This is a mistake; + for in fact the cause of all the blunders + <a class="pagenum" id="page30" title="30"></a>committed by man arises from this excessive + self-love. For the lover is blinded by the + object loved, so that he passes a wrong + judgment upon what is just, good, and + beautiful, thinking that he ought always to + honour what belongs to himself, in preference + to truth. For he who intends to be + a great man ought to love neither himself + nor his own things, but only what is just, + whether it happens to be done by himself + or by another.</p> + <p class="source">Plato.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_143" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">143.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> man eminent in learning has not even + a little virtue if he fears to practise + it. What precious things can be shown to + a blind man when he holds a lamp in + his hand?</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_144" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">144.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> first forty years of our life give the + text, the next thirty furnish the commentary + upon it, which enables us rightly + to understand the true meaning and connection + of the text with its moral and its + beauties.</p> + <p class="source">Schopenhauer.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_145" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">145.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Good</span> actions lead to success, as good + medicines to a cure: a healthy man + is joyful, and a diligent man attains learning; + a just man gains the reward of his virtue.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_146" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page31" title="31"></a>146.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Purpose</span> without power is mere weakness + and deception; and power without + purpose is mere fatuity.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_147" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">147.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Suffering</span> is the necessary consequence + of sin, just as when you eat + a sour fruit a stomach complaint ensues.</p> + <p class="source">Burmese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_148" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">148.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Riches</span> disclose in a man’s character + the bad qualities formerly concealed + in his poverty.</p> + <p class="source">Arabic.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_149" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">149.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Whate’er</span> the work a man performs,</p> + <p>The most effective aid to its completion—</p> + <p>The most prolific source of true success—</p> + <p>Is energy, without despondency.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Ramāyāna.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_150" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">150.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Humility</span> is a virtue all preach, none + practise, and yet everybody is content + to hear. The master thinks it good + doctrine for his servant, the laity for the + clergy, and the clergy for the laity.</p> + <p class="source">Selden.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_151-180"> + <div id="saying_151" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">151.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Authority</span> intoxicates,</p> + <p>And makes mere sots of magistrates;</p> + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page32" title="32"></a>The fumes of it invade the brain,</p> + <p>And make men giddy, proud, and vain;</p> + <p>By this the fool commands the wise,</p> + <p>The noble with the base complies,</p> + <p>The sot assumes the rule of wit,</p> + <p>And cowards make the base submit.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Butler.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_152" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">152.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">No</span> man learns to know his inmost nature + by introspection, for he rates himself + sometimes too low, and often too high, by + his own measurement. Man knows himself + only by comparing himself with other men; + it is life that touches his genuine worth.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_153" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">153.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Increase</span> in goodness as long as thou + art here, that, when thou departest, in + that thou mayest still be joyful. According + to our words and deeds in this life will + be the remembrance of us in the world.</p> + <p class="source">Firdausī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_154" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">154.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Parents</span>’ affection is best shown by + their teaching their children industry + and self-denial.</p> + <p class="source">Burmese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_155" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">155.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> are three things to beware of + through life: when a man is young, + let him beware of his appetites; when he + <a class="pagenum" id="page33" title="33"></a>is middle-aged, of his passions; and when + old, of covetousness, especially.</p> + <p class="source">Confucius.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_156" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">156.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> who has given satisfaction to the + best of his time has lived for ages.</p> + <p class="source">Schiller.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_157" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">157.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">I</span> never yet found pride in a noble nature + nor humility in an unworthy mind.</p> + <p class="source">Feltham.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_158" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">158.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Worldly</span> fame is but a breath of + wind, that blows now this way, + now that, and changes name as it changes + sides.</p> + <p class="source">Dante.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_159" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">159.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">True</span> modesty and true pride are much + the same thing. Both consist in setting + a just value on ourselves—neither more + nor less.</p> + <p class="source">Hazlitt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_160" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">160.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Never</span> does a man portray his own + character more vividly than in his + manner of portraying another.</p> + <p class="source">Richter.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_161" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">161.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> foolish husband fears his wife; a + prudent wife obeys her husband.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_162" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page34" title="34"></a>162.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> who devises evil for another falls at + last into his own pit, and the most + cunning finds himself caught by what he + had prepared for another. But virtue without + guile, erect like the lofty palm, rises + with greater vigour when it is oppressed.</p> + <p class="source">Metastasio.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_163" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">163.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Laughing</span> is peculiar to man, but all + men do not laugh for the same reason. + There is the attic salt which springs + from the charm in the words, from the + flash of wit, from the spirited and brilliant + sally. There is the low joke which arises + from scurrility and idle conceit.</p> + <p class="source">Goldoni.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_164" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">164.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> woman who is resolved to be respected + can make herself be so even + amidst an army of soldiers.</p> + <p class="source">Cervantes.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_165" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">165.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Petty</span> ambition would seem to be a + mean craving after distinction.</p> + <p class="source">Theophrastus.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_166" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">166.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is an old observation that wise men + grow usually wiser as they grow older, + and fools more foolish.</p> + <p class="source">Wieland.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_167" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page35" title="35"></a>167.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Use</span> law and physic only for necessity. + They that use them otherwise abuse + themselves into weak bodies and light + purses. They are good remedies, bad businesses, + and worse recreations.</p> + <p class="source">Quarles.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_168" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">168.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> some dispositions there is such an envious + kind of pride that they cannot + endure that any but themselves should be + set forth as excellent; so that when they hear + one justly praised they will either openly + detract from his virtues; or, if those virtues + be, like a clear and shining light, eminent and + distinguished, so that he cannot be safely traduced + by the tongue, they will then raise a + suspicion against him by a mysterious silence, + as if there were something remaining to be + told which overclouded even his brightest + glory.</p> + <p class="source">Feltham.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_169" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">169.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Every</span> man thinks with himself, I am + well, I am wise, and laughs at others; + and ’tis a general fault amongst them all, that + which our forefathers approved—diet, apparel, + humours, customs, manners—we deride and + reject in our time as absurd.</p> + <p class="source">Burton.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_170" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page36" title="36"></a>170.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Repeated</span> sin destroys the understanding</p> + <p>And he whose reason is impaired repeats</p> + <p>His sins. The constant practising of virtue</p> + <p>Strengthens the mental faculties, and he</p> + <p>Whose judgment stronger grows acts always right.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_171" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">171.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> you wish to know how much preferable + wisdom is to gold, then observe: + if you change gold you get silver for it, but + your gold is gone; but if you exchange one + sort of wisdom for another, you obtain fresh + knowledge, and at the same time keep what + you possessed before.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_172" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">172.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> man who listens not to the words of + affectionate friends will give joy in the + time of distress to his enemies.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_173" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">173.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is a proverbial expression that every man + is the maker of his own fortune, and we + usually regard it as implying that every + man by his folly or wisdom prepares good + or evil for himself. But we may view it in + another light, namely, that we may so + accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of + Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever + may be its privations.</p> + <p class="source">Von Humboldt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_174" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page37" title="37"></a>174.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Be</span> very circumspect in the choice of thy + company. In the society of thy equals + thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the + society of thy superiors thou shalt find + more profit. To be the best of the company + is the way to grow worse; the best means + to grow better is to be the worst there.</p> + <p class="source">Quarles.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_175" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">175.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Assume</span> in adversity a countenance of + prosperity, and in prosperity moderate + thy temper.</p> + <p class="source">Livy.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_176" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">176.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Mark</span> this! who lives beyond his means</p> + <p>Forfeits respect, loses his sense;</p> + <p>Where’er he goes, through the seven births,</p> + <p>All count him knave: him women hate.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Hindu Poetess.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_177" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">177.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Be</span> cautious in your intercourse with the + great; they seldom confer obligations + on their inferiors but from interested motives. + Friendly they appear as long as it + serves their turn, but they will render no + assistance in time of actual need.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_178" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">178.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Man</span>, though he be gray-headed when + he comes back, soon gets a young + <a class="pagenum" id="page38" title="38"></a>wife. But a woman’s time is short within + which she can expect to obtain a husband. + If she allows it to slip away, no one cares + to marry her. She sits at home, speculating + on the probability of her marriage.</p> + <p class="source">Aristophanes.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_179" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">179.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Hearts</span> are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes</p> + <p>Kindle a flame of love that never dies;</p> + <p>And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths,</p> + <p>Offer themselves a burning sacrifice.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Omar Khayyām.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_180" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">180.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">When</span> thou utterest not a word thou + hast laid thy hand upon it; when + thou hast uttered it, it hath laid its hand + on thee.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_181-210"> + <div id="saying_181" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">181.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">To</span> the tongue which bringeth thee words + without reason, the answer that best beseemeth + thee is—silence.</p> + <p class="source">Nizāmī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_182" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">182.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> man who talketh much and never + acteth will not be held in reputation + by anyone.</p> + <p class="source">Firdausī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_183" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page39" title="39"></a>183.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Two</span> sources of success are known: wisdom + and effort; make them both thine own, + if thou wouldst haply rise.</p> + <p class="source">Māgha.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_184" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">184.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">The</span> worse the ill that fate on noble souls</p> + <p>Inflicts, the more their firmness; and they arm</p> + <p>Their spirits with adamant to meet the blow.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Hindu Drama.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_185" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">185.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Opportunities</span> lose not, for all delay is madness;</p> + <p>’Mid bitter sorrow patience show, for ’tis the key of gladness.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Turkish.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_186" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">186.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Man</span> is the only animal with the powers + of laughter, a privilege which was + not bestowed on him for nothing. Let us + then laugh while we may, no matter how + broad the laugh may be, and despite of + what the poet says about “the loud laugh + that speaks the vacant mind.” The mind + should occasionally be vacant, as the land + should sometimes lie fallow, and for precisely + the same reason.</p> + <p class="source">Egerton Smith.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_187" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">187.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> man of affluence is not in fact + more happy than the possessor of a + <a class="pagenum" id="page40" title="40"></a>bare competency, unless, in addition to his + wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. + We often see misery dwelling in the midst + of splendour, whilst real happiness is found + in humbler stations.</p> + <p class="source">Herodotus.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_188" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">188.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Love</span> of money is the disease which + renders us most pitiful and grovelling, + and love of pleasure is that which renders + us most despicable.</p> + <p class="source">Longinus.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_189" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">189.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> who labours diligently need never + despair. We can accomplish every + thing by diligence and labour.</p> + <p class="source">Menander.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_190" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">190.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Lost</span> money is bewailed with deeper sighs</p> + <p>Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Juvenal.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_191" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">191.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">In</span> one short verse I here express</p> + <p>The sum of tomes of sacred lore:</p> + <p>Beneficence is righteousness,</p> + <p>Oppression’s sin’s malignant core.</p> + </div> + + <p class="source">Sanskrit.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_192" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">192.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> wound inflicted by arrows heals, a + wood cut down by an axe grows, + but harsh words are hateful—a wound inflicted + <a class="pagenum" id="page41" title="41"></a>by them does not heal. Arrows of + different sorts can be extracted from the + body, but a word-dart cannot be drawn + out, for it is seated in the heart.</p> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_193" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">193.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">To</span> address a judicious remark to a + thoughtless man is a mere threshing + of chaff.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_194" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">194.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">All</span> the blessings of a household come + through the wife, therefore should + her husband honour her.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_195" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">195.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Certain</span> books seem to be written, + not that we might learn from them, + but in order that we might see how much + the author knows.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_196" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">196.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">All</span> that is old is not therefore necessarily + excellent; all that is new is + not despicable on that account alone. Let + what is really meritorious be pronounced so + by the candid judge after due investigation; + blockheads alone are influenced by the + opinion of others.</p> + <p class="source">Hindu Drama.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_197" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">197.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">One</span> of the diseases of this age is the + multitude of books. It is a thriftless + <a class="pagenum" id="page42" title="42"></a>and a thankless occupation, this writing of + books: a man were better to sing in a + cobbler’s shop, for his pay is a penny a + patch; but a book-writer, if he get sometimes + a few commendations from the judicious, + he shall be sure to reap a thousand + reproaches from the malicious.</p> + <p class="source">Barnaby Rich.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_198" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">198.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">We</span> rather confess our moral errors, + faults, and crimes than our ignorance.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_199" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">199.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> angel grows up in divine knowledge, + the brute, in savage ignorance, and + the son of man stands hesitating between + the two.</p> + <p class="source">Persian.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_200" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">200.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">She</span> is a wife who is notable in her + house; she is a wife who beareth + children; she is a wife whose husband is + as her life; she is a wife who is obedient + to her lord. The wife is half the man; a + wife is man’s dearest friend; a wife is the + source of his religion, his worldly profit, + and his love. He who hath a wife maketh + offerings in his house. Those who have + wives are blest with good fortune. Wives + are friends, who, by their kind and gentle + speech, soothe you in your retirement. In + <a class="pagenum" id="page43" title="43"></a>your distresses they are as mothers, and + they are refreshment to those who are + travellers in the rugged paths of life.</p> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_201" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">201.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> that is ambitious of fame destroys + it. He that increaseth not his knowledge + diminishes it. He that uses the crown + of learning as an instrument of gain will + pass away.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_202" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">202.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">While</span> the slightest inconveniences of + the great are magnified into calamities, + while tragedy mouths out their + sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, + the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; + 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 lives.</p> + <p class="source">Goldsmith.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_203" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">203.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is impossible for those who are engaged + in low and grovelling pursuits to entertain + noble and generous sentiments. Their + thoughts must always necessarily be somewhat + similar to their employments.</p> + <p class="source">Demosthenes.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_204" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">204.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> interval is immense between corporeal + qualifications and sciences: the + <a class="pagenum" id="page44" title="44"></a>body in a moment is extinct, but knowledge + endureth to the end of time.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_205" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">205.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> thou lackest knowledge, what hast + thou then acquired? Hast thou acquired + knowledge, what else dost thou want?</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_206" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">206.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Be</span> modest and simple in your deportment, + and treat with indifference whatever + lies between virtue and vice. Love the + human race; obey God.</p> + <p class="source">Marcus Aurelius.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_207" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">207.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Bootless</span> grief hurts a man’s self, but + patience makes a jest of an injury.</p> + <p class="source">R. Chamberlain.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_208" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">208.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Poverty</span> without debt is independence.</p> + <p class="source">Arabic.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_209" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">209.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Just</span> as the track of birds that cleave the air</p> + <p>Is not discovered, nor yet the path of fish</p> + <p>That skim the water, so the course of those</p> + <p>Who do good actions is not always seen.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_210" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">210.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> who has wealth has friends; he who + has wealth has relations; he who has + <a class="pagenum" id="page45" title="45"></a>wealth is a hero among the people; he who + has wealth is even a sage.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_211-240"> + <div id="saying_211" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">211.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Like</span> a beautiful flower, full of colour + but without scent, are the fine but + fruitless words of him who does not act + accordingly.</p> + <p class="source">Dhammapada.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_212" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">212.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">When</span> men are doubtful of the true + state of things, their wishes lead + them to believe in what is most agreeable.</p> + <p class="source">Arrianus.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_213" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">213.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Most</span> men the good they have despise,</p> + <p>And blessings which they have not prize:</p> + <p>In winter, wish for summer’s glow,</p> + <p>In summer, long for winter’s snow.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Sanskrit.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_214" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">214.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> best conduct a man can adopt is + that which gains him the esteem of + others without depriving him of his own.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_215" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">215.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Whoso</span> associates with the wicked + will be accused of following their + ways, though their principles may have + made no impression upon him; just as if + a person were in the habit of frequenting + <a class="pagenum" id="page46" title="46"></a>a tavern, he would not be supposed to go + there for prayer, but to drink intoxicating + liquor.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_216" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">216.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> loss of a much-prized treasure is + only half felt when we have not + regarded its tenure as secure.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_217" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">217.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">The</span> dull-hued turkey apes the gait</p> + <p>Of lordly peacock, richly plumed;</p> + <p>And thus the poetaster shows</p> + <p>When he would fain his verse recite.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Hindu Poetess.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_218" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">218.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Knowledge</span> acquired by a man of + low degree places him on a level + with a prince, as a small river attains the + irremeable ocean; and his fortune is then + exalted.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_219" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">219.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">An</span> evil-minded man is quick to see</p> + <p>His neighbour’s faults, though small as mustard seed;</p> + <p>But when he turns his eyes towards his own,</p> + <p>Though large as <i>bilva</i> fruit, he none descries.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_220" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">220.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Two</span> persons die remorseful: he who + possessed and enjoyed not, and he + <a class="pagenum" id="page47" title="47"></a>who knew but did not practise.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_221" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">221.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">With</span> regard to a secret divulged and + kept concealed, there is an excellent + proverb, that the one is an arrow still in + our possession, the other is an arrow sent + from the bow.</p> + <p class="source">Jāmī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_222" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">222.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">The</span> thing we want eludes our grasp,</p> + <p>Some other thing is given; sometimes</p> + <p>Our wish is gained, and gifts unsought</p> + <p>Are ours; these all are God’s own work.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Hindu Poetess.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_223" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">223.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> a man conquer in battle a thousand + times a thousand men, and if another + conquer himself, he is the greater of conquerors.*</p> + <p class="source">Dhammapada.</p> + <div id="footnote_10" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. Prov. <span class="bible_chapter">XVI</span>, 32.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_224" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">224.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> man who is in the highest state of + prosperity, and who thinks his fortune + is most secure, knows not if it will remain + unchanged till the evening.</p> + <p class="source">Demosthenes.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_225" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">225.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Amongst</span> all possessions knowledge + appears pre-eminent. The wise call + it supreme riches, because it can never be + <a class="pagenum" id="page48" title="48"></a>lost, has no price, and can at no time be + destroyed.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_226" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">226.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> shadows of the mind are like those + of the body. In the morning of life + they all lie behind us, at noon we trample + them under foot, and in the evening they + stretch long, broad, and deepening before + us.</p> + <p class="source">Longfellow.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_227" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">227.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> who is full of faith and modesty, + who shrinks from sin, and is full of + learning, who is diligent, unremiss, and full + of understanding—he, being replete with + these seven things, is esteemed a wise man.</p> + <p class="source">Burmese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_228" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">228.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> your foot slip, you may recover your + balance, but if your tongue slip, you + cannot recall your words.</p> + <p class="source">Telugu.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_229" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">229.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> vacant mind is open to all suggestions, + as the hollow mountain returns + all sounds.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_230" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">230.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Women</span> are ever masters when they like,</p> + <p>And cozen with their kindness; they have spells</p> + <p>Superior to the wand of the magicians;</p> + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page49" title="49"></a>And from their lips the words of wisdom fall,</p> + <p>Like softest music on the listening ear.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Firdausī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_231" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">231.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> man cannot possess anything that is + better than a good wife, or anything + that is worse than a bad one.</p> + <p class="source">Simonides.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_232" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">232.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> wife of bad conduct—constantly + pleased with quarrelling—she is known + by wise men to be cruel Old Age in the + form of a wife.</p> + <p class="source">Panchatantra.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_233" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">233.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">I</span> have often thought that the cause of + men’s good or ill fortune depends on + whether they make their actions fit with + the times. A man having prospered by one + mode of acting can never be persuaded + that it may be well for him to act differently, + whence it is that a man’s Fortune + varies, because she changes her times and + he does not his ways.</p> + <p class="source">Machiavelli.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_234" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">234.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">By</span> nature all men are alike, but by + education very different.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_235" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">235.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Whilom</span>, ere youth’s conceit had waned, methought</p> + <p>Answers to all life’s problems I had wrought;</p> + <p class="i2"><a class="pagenum" id="page50" title="50"></a>But now, grown old and wise, too late I see</p> + <p>My life is spent, and all my lore is nought.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Omar Khayyām.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_236" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">236.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Weak</span> men gain their object when + allied with strong associates: the + brook reaches the ocean by the river’s aid.</p> + <p class="source">Māgha.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_237" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">237.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> swan is out of place among crows, a + lion among bulls, a horse among asses, + and a wise man among fools.</p> + <p class="source">Burmese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_238" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">238.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Whosoever</span> does not persecute them + that persecute him; whosoever takes + an offence in silence; he who does good + because of love; he who is cheerful under + his sufferings—these are the friends of God, + and of them the Scripture says, “They + shall shine forth like the sun at noontide.”</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_239" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">239.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is intolerable that a silly fool, with nothing + but empty birth to boast of, should + in his insolence array himself in the merits + of others, and vaunt an honour which does + not belong to him.</p> + <p class="source">Boileau.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_240" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">240.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Ask</span> not a man who his father was + but make trial of his qualities, and then + <a class="pagenum" id="page51" title="51"></a>conciliate or reject him accordingly. For + it is no disgrace to new wine, if only it + be sweet, as to its taste, that it was the + juice [or daughter] of sour grapes.</p> + <p class="source">Arabic.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_241-270"> + <div id="saying_241" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">241.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> sun opens the lotuses, the moon + illumines the beds of water-lilies, the + cloud pours forth its water unasked: even + so the liberal of their own accord are + occupied in benefiting others.</p> + <p class="source">Bhartrihari.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_242" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">242.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">We</span> blame equally him who is too + proud to put a proper value on + his own merit and him who prizes too + highly his spurious worth.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_243" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">243.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Men</span> are so simple, and yield so much + to necessity, that he who will deceive + may always find him that will lend himself + to be deceived.</p> + <p class="source">Machiavelli.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_244" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">244.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Obstinate</span> silence implies either a + mean opinion of ourselves, or a contempt + for our company; and it is the more + provoking, as others do not know to which + of these causes to attribute it—whether + humility or pride.</p> + <p class="source">Hazlitt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_245" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page52" title="52"></a>245.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> thou desire not to be poor, desire not + to be too rich. He is rich, not that + possesses much, but he that covets no + more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, + but he that wants too much. The contented + mind wants nothing which it hath not; the + covetous mind wants, not only what it hath + not, but likewise what it hath.</p> + <p class="source">Quarles.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_246" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">246.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Those</span> noble men who falsehood dread</p> + <p class="i2">In wealth and glory ever grow,</p> + <p class="i2">As flames with greater brightness glow</p> + <p>With oil in ceaseless flow when fed.</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>But like to flames with water drenched,</p> + <p class="i2">Which, faintly flickering, die away,</p> + <p class="i2">So liars day by day decay,</p> + <p>Till all their lustre soon is quenched.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="source">Sanskrit.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_247" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">247.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Watch</span> over thy expenditure, for he + who through vain glory spendeth + uselessly what he hath on empty follies, + will receive neither return nor praise from + anyone.</p> + <p class="source">Firdausī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_248" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">248.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> thou art a man, speak not much about + thine own manliness, for not every + champion driveth the ball to the goal.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_249" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page53" title="53"></a>249.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> potter forms what he pleases with + soft clay, so a man accomplishes his + works by his own act.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_250" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">250.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">No</span> man of high and generous spirit is + ever willing to indulge in flattery; the + good may feel affection for others, but + will not flatter them.</p> + <p class="source">Aristotle.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_251" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">251.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">An</span> ass will with his long ears fray</p> + <p>The flies that tickle him away;</p> + <p>But man delights to have his ears</p> + <p>Blown maggots in by flatterers.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Butler.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_252" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">252.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Books</span> are pleasant, but if by being + over-studious we impair our health + and spoil our good humour, two of the + best things we have, let us give it over. + I, for my part, am one of those who think + no fruit derived from them can recompense + so great a loss.</p> + <p class="source">Montaigne.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_253" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">253.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> is happiest, be he king or peasant, + who finds peace in his home.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_254" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">254.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">If</span> with a stranger thou discourse, first learn,</p> + <p>By strictest observation, to discern</p> + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page54" title="54"></a>If he be wiser than thyself, if so,</p> + <p>Be dumb, and rather choose by him to know;</p> + <p>But if thyself perchance the wiser be,</p> + <p>Then do thou speak, that he may learn by thee.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Randolph.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_255" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">255.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Being</span> continually in people’s sight, by + the satiety which it creates, diminishes + the reverence felt for great characters.</p> + <p class="source">Livy.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_256" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">256.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> is a great difference between one + who can feel ashamed before his own + soul and one who is only ashamed before + his fellow men.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_257" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">257.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">By</span> rousing himself, by earnestness, by + restraint and control the wise man may + make for himself an island which no flood + can overwhelm.</p> + <p class="source">Dhammapada.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_258" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">258.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> best way to make ourselves agreeable + to others is by seeming to think them + so. If we appear fully sensible of their + good qualities they will not complain of + the want of them in us.</p> + <p class="source">Hazlitt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_259" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">259.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">To</span> form a judgment intuitively is the privilege + of few; authority and example + <a class="pagenum" id="page55" title="55"></a>lead the rest of the world. They see with + the eyes of others, they hear with the ears + of others. Therefore it is very easy to + think as all the world now think; but to + think as all the world will think thirty + years hence is not in the power of every + one.</p> + <p class="source">Schopenhauer.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_260" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">260.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Poesy</span> is a beauteous damsel, chaste, + honourable, discreet, witty, retired, + and who keeps herself within the limits of + propriety. She is a friend of solitude; + fountains entertain her, meadows console + her, woods free her from ennui, flowers + delight her; in short, she gives pleasure + and instruction to all with whom she communicates.</p> + <p class="source">Cervantes.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_261" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">261.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">How</span> can we learn to know ourselves? + By reflection, never, but by our + actions. Attempt to do your duty, and + you will immediately find what is in you.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_262" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">262.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Man</span> is supreme lord and master</p> + <p>Of his own ruin and disaster,</p> + <p>Controls his fate, but nothing less</p> + <p>In ordering his own happiness:</p> + <p>For all his care and providence</p> + <p>Is too feeble a defence</p> + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page56" title="56"></a>To render it secure and certain</p> + <p>Against the injuries of Fortune;</p> + <p>And oft, in spite of all his wit,</p> + <p>Is lost by one unlucky hit,</p> + <p>And ruined with a circumstance,</p> + <p>And mere punctilio of a chance.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Butler.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_263" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">263.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> is nothing in this world which + a resolute man, who exerts himself, + cannot attain.</p> + <p class="source">Somadeva.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_264" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">264.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Ere</span> need be shown, some men will act,</p> + <p>As trees may fruit without a flower;</p> + <p>To some you speak with no result,</p> + <p>As seeds may die, and yield no grain.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Hindu Poetess.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_265" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">265.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Seven</span> things characterise the wise man, + and seven the blockhead. The wise + man speaks not before those who are his + superiors, either in age or wisdom. He + interrupts not others in the midst of their + discourse. He replies not hastily. His + questions are relevant to the subject, his + answers, to the purpose. In delivering his + sentiments he taketh the first in order + first, the last, last. What he understands + not he says, “I understand not.” He + acknowledges his error, and is open to + <a class="pagenum" id="page57" title="57"></a>conviction. The reverse of all this characterises + the blockhead.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_266" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">266.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">How</span> absolute and omnipotent is the + silence of the night! And yet the + stillness seems almost audible. From all the + measureless depths of air around us comes + a half sound, a half whisper, 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 + beginning, never ending—the gradual + lapse and running of the sand in the great + hour-glass of Time.</p> + <p class="source">Longfellow.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_267" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">267.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">What</span> avails your wealth, if it makes + you arrogant to the poor?</p> + <p class="source">Arabic.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_268" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">268.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">All</span> confidence is dangerous unless it is + complete; there are few circumstances + in which it is not better either to hide all or + to tell all.</p> + <p class="source">La Bruyère.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_269" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">269.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is well that there is no one without a + fault, for he would not have a friend + in the world: he would seem to belong to + a different species.</p> + <p class="source">Hazlitt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_270" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">270.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">The</span> mind alike,</p> + <p>Vigorous or weak, is capable of culture,</p> + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page58" title="58"></a>But still bears fruit according to its nature.</p> + <p>’Tis not the teacher’s skill that rears the scholar:</p> + <p>The sparkling gem gives back the glorious radiance</p> + <p>It drinks from other light, but the dull earth</p> + <p>Absorbs the blaze, and yields no gleam again.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Bhavabhūti.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_271-300"> + <div id="saying_271" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">271.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">One</span> man envies the success in life of + another, and hates him in secret; + nor is he willing to give him good advice + when he is consulted, except it be by some + wonderful effort of good feeling, and there + are, alas, few such men in the world. A + real friend, on the other hand, exults in + his friend’s happiness, rejoices in all his + joys, and is ready to afford him the best + advice.</p> + <p class="source">Herodotus.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_272" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">272.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">This</span> body is a tent which for a space</p> + <p>Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace;</p> + <p class="i2">When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death,</p> + <p>Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Omar Khayyām.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_273" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">273.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Speak</span> but little, and that little only + when thy own purposes require it. + Heaven has given thee two ears but only + <a class="pagenum" id="page59" title="59"></a>one tongue, which means: listen to two + things, but be not the first to propose one.</p> + <p class="source">Hāfiz.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_274" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">274.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> natural hostility of beasts is laid + aside when flying from pursuers; so + also when danger is impending the enmity + of rivals is ended.</p> + <p class="source">Bhāravi.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_275" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">275.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> who toils with pain will eat with + pleasure.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_276" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">276.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> day of fortune is like a harvest-day, we + must be busy when the corn is ripe.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_277" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">277.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> fame of good men’s actions seldom + goes beyond their own doors, but their + evil deeds are carried a thousand miles’ + distance.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_278" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">278.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> subtle-witted man is like an + arrow, which, rending little surface, + enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull + resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, + but never piercing.</p> + <p class="source">Māgha.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_279" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">279.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is good to tame the mind, which is + difficult to hold in, and flighty, rushing + <a class="pagenum" id="page60" title="60"></a>wheresoever it listeth: a tamed mind brings + blessings.</p> + <p class="source">Dhammapada.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_280" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">280.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">The</span> man who every sacred science knows,</p> + <p>Yet has not strength to keep in check the foes</p> + <p>That rise within him, mars his Fortune’s fame,</p> + <p>And brings her by his feebleness to shame.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Bhāravi.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_281" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">281.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">What</span> a rich man gives and what he + consumes, that is his real worth.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_282" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">282.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> who does not think too much of + himself is much more esteemed than + he imagines.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_283" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">283.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is a kind of policy in these days to + prefix a fantastical title to a book which + is to be sold; for as larks come down to + a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and + stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an + antic picture in a painter’s shop that will + not look at a judicious piece.</p> + <p class="source">Burton.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_284" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">284.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">With</span> many readers brilliancy of style + passes for affluence of thought: + they mistake buttercups in the grass for + <a class="pagenum" id="page61" title="61"></a>immeasurable gold mines under the ground.</p> + <p class="source">Longfellow.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_285" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">285.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> doctrine that enters only into the + ear is like the repast one takes in a + dream.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_286" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">286.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Adorn</span> thy mind with knowledge, for + knowledge maketh thy worth.</p> + <p class="source">Firdausī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_287" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">287.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Men</span> hail the rising sun with glee,</p> + <p>They love his setting glow to see,</p> + <p>But fail to mark that every day</p> + <p>In fragments bears their life away.</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>All Nature’s face delight to view,</p> + <p>As changing seasons come anew;</p> + <p>None sees how each revolving year</p> + <p>Abridges swiftly man’s career.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="source">Ramāyāna.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_288" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">288.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> good man shuns evil and follows + good; he keeps secret that which + ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues + manifest to all; he does not forsake one + in adversity; he gives in season: such are + the marks of a worthy friend.</p> + <p class="source">Bhartrihari.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_289" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">289.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">No</span> one hath come into the world + for a continuance save him who + <a class="pagenum" id="page62" title="62"></a>leaveth behind him a good name.*</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + <div id="footnote_11" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. <a href="#saying_29">29</a>.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_290" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">290.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Gross</span> ignorance produces a dogmatic + spirit. He who knows nothing thinks + he can teach others what he has himself + just been learning. He who knows much + scarcely believes that what he is saying is + unknown to others, and consequently speaks + with more hesitation.</p> + <p class="source">La Bruyère.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_291" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">291.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">When</span> you see a man elated with pride, + glorying in his riches and high + descent, rising even above fortune, look + out for his speedy punishment; for he is + only raised the higher that he may fall + with a heavier crash.</p> + <p class="source">Menander.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_292" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">292.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> ridiculous is produced by any defect + that is unattended by pain, or fatal + consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed + countenance does not fail to cause laughter, + if it is not occasioned by pain.</p> + <p class="source">Aristotle.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_293" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">293.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Happy</span> the man who early learns the + difference between his wishes and his + powers.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_294" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">294.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> is nothing more pitiable in the + world than an irresolute man vacillating + <a class="pagenum" id="page63" title="63"></a>between two feelings, who would willingly + unite the two, and who does not + perceive that nothing can unite them.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_295" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">295.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Beauty</span> in a modest woman is like + fire at a distance, or like a sharp + sword: neither doth the one burn nor the + other wound him that comes not too near + them.</p> + <p class="source">Cervantes.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_296" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">296.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">We</span> are more sociable and get on better + with people by the heart than the + intellect.</p> + <p class="source">La Bruyère.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_297" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">297.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> good man may fall, but he falls like + a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble + man falls like a lump of clay.</p> + <p class="source">Bhartrihari.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_298" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">298.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Do</span> not anxiously expect what is not + yet come; do not vainly regret what + is already past.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_299" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">299.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> way to subject all things to thyself + is to subject thyself to reason; thou + shalt govern many if reason govern thee. + Wouldst thou be a monarch of a little + world, command thyself.</p> + <p class="source">Quarles.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_300" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page64" title="64"></a>300.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> our inward griefs were written on our + brows, how many who are envied now + would be pitied. It would seem that they + had their deadliest foe in their own breast, + and their whole happiness would be reduced + to mere seeming.</p> + <p class="source">Metastasio.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_301-330"> + <div id="saying_301" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">301.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> are many who talk on from + ignorance rather than from knowledge, + and who find the former an inexhaustible + fund of conversation.</p> + <p class="source">Hazlitt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_302" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">302.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Whoever</span> brings cheerfulness to his + work, and is ever active, dashes + through the world’s labours.</p> + <p class="source">Tieck.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_303" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">303.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Grossness</span> is not difficult to define: + it is obtrusive and objectionable pleasantry.</p> + <p class="source">Theophrastus.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_304" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">304.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Do</span> not consider any vice as trivial, and + therefore practise it; do not consider + any virtue as unimportant, and therefore + neglect it.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_305" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">305.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">To</span> bad as well as good, to all,</p> + <p>A generous man compassion shows;</p> + <p class="i2"><a class="pagenum" id="page65" title="65"></a>On earth no mortal lives, he knows,</p> + <p>Who does not oft through weakness fall.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Rāmāyana.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_306" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">306.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">The</span> good extend their loving care</p> + <p class="i2">To men, however mean or vile;</p> + <p>E’en base <span class="errata" title="original reads Chandalas’">Chándálas’</span>* dwellings share</p> + <p class="i2">Th’ impartial sunbeam’s silver smile.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + <div id="footnote_12" class="footnote"> + <p>* Chándálas, or Pariahs, are the lowest, or of no caste.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_307" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">307.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Let</span> a man accept with confidence valuable + knowledge even from a person + of low degree, good instruction regarding + duty even from a humble man, and a jewel + of a wife even from an ignoble family.</p> + <p class="source">Manu.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_308" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">308.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">We</span> cannot too soon convince ourselves + how easily we may be dispensed with + in the world. What important personages + we imagine ourselves to be! We + think that we alone are the life of the circle + in which we move; in our absence, we fancy + that life, existence, breath will come to a general + pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave + is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled + again; nay, it is often the place, if not of + something better, at least for something more + agreeable.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_309" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page66" title="66"></a>309.</h3> + <p>The friendships formed between good + and evil men differ. The friendship of + the good, at first faint like the morning + light, continually increases; the friendship + of the evil at the very beginning is like the + light of midday, and dies away like the + light of evening.*</p> + <p class="source">Bhartrihari.</p> + <div id="footnote_13" class="footnote"> + <p>* In many parts of the East there is practically no twilight.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_310" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">310.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> hundred long leagues is no distance + for him who would quench the thirst + of covetousness; but a contented mind has + no solicitude for grasping wealth.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_311" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">311.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> noble-minded dedicate themselves + to the promotion of the happiness of + others—even of those who injure them. + True happiness consists in making happy.</p> + <p class="source">Bhāravi.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_312" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">312.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> benefit given to the good is like + characters engraven on a stone; a + benefit given to the evil is like a line drawn + on water.</p> + <p class="source">Buddhist.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_313" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">313.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> undertaking of a careless man succeeds + not, though he use the right + <a class="pagenum" id="page67" title="67"></a>expedients: a clever hunter, though well + placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he + falls asleep.</p> + <p class="source">Bhāravi.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_314" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">314.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">All</span> love, at first, like generous wine,</p> + <p>Ferments and frets until ’tis fine;</p> + <p>But when ’tis settled on the lee,</p> + <p>And from th’ impurer matter free,</p> + <p>Becomes the richer still the older,</p> + <p>And proves the pleasanter the colder.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Butler.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_315" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">315.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Safe</span> in thy breast close lock up thy intents,</p> + <p>For he that knows thy purpose best prevents.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Randolph.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_316" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">316.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Frugality</span> should ever be practised, + but not excessive parsimony.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_317" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">317.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> who receives a favour must retain a + recollection of it for all time to come; + but he who confers should at once forget + it, if he is not to show a sordid and ungenerous + spirit. To remind a man of a + kindness conferred on him, and to talk of + it, is little different from a reproach.</p> + <p class="source">Demosthenes.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_318" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page68" title="68"></a>318.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Pride</span> not thyself on thy religious works,</p> + <p>Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts:</p> + <p>By pride religious merit melts away,</p> + <p>The merit of thy alms, by ostentation.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Manu.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_319" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">319.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">The</span> empty beds of rivers fill again;</p> + <p>Trees leafless now renew their vernal bloom;</p> + <p class="i2">Returning moons their lustrous phase resume;</p> + <p>But man a second youth expects in vain.*</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Somadeva.</p> + <div id="footnote_14" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. Job, <span class="bible_chapter">XIV</span>, 7.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_320" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">320.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Shall</span> He to thee His aid refuse</p> + <p>Who clothes the swan in dazzling white,</p> + <p class="i2">Who robes in green the parrot bright,</p> + <p>The peacocks decks in rainbow hues?*</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + <div id="footnote_15" class="footnote"> + <p>Cf. Matt. <span class="bible_chapter">VI</span>, 25, 26.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_321" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">321.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> bad man is as much pleased as a + good man is distressed to speak ill + of others.</p> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_322" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">322.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Every</span> bird has its decoy, and every + man is led and misled in his own + peculiar way.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_323" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page69" title="69"></a>323.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> 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 due, we are + not angry with the author’s insincerity.</p> + <p class="source">Feltham.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_324" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">324.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Too</span> much to lament a misery is the next + way to draw on a remediless mischief.</p> + <p class="source">R. Chamberlain.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_325" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">325.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> is no remembrance which time + doth not obliterate, nor pain which + death doth not put an end to.</p> + <p class="source">Cervantes.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_326" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">326.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Look</span> not mournfully into the Past. It + comes not back again. Wisely improve + the Present. It is thine. Go forth + to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, + and with a manly heart.</p> + <p class="source">Longfellow.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_327" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">327.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Plans</span> that are wise and prudent in + themselves are rendered vain when + the execution of them is carried on negligently + and with imprudence.</p> + <p class="source">Guicciardini.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_328" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">328.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Every</span> man stamps his value on himself. + The price we challenge for ourselves + <a class="pagenum" id="page70" title="70"></a>is given us. Man is made great or little + by his own will.</p> + <p class="source">Schiller.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_329" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">329.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Hath</span> any wronged thee, be bravely + revenged. Slight it, and the work’s + begun; forgive it, and ’tis finished. He is + below himself that is not above an injury.</p> + <p class="source">Quarles.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_330" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">330.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">As</span> gold is tried by the furnace, and the + baser metal shown, so the hollow-hearted + friend is known by adversity.</p> + <p class="source">Metastasio.</p> + </div> + + </div> + <div id="sayings_331-360"> + <div id="saying_331" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">331.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> rose does not bloom without thorns. + True, but would that the thorns did + not outlive the rose.</p> + <p class="source">Richter.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_332" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">332.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Truth</span> from the mouth of an honest + man and severity from a good-natured + man have a double effect.</p> + <p class="source">Hazlitt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_333" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">333.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Most</span> virgins marry, just as nuns</p> + <p>The same thing the same way renounce;</p> + <p>Before they’ve wit to understand</p> + <p>The bold attempt, they take in hand;</p> + <p>Or, having stayed and lost their tides,</p> + <p>Are out of season grown for brides.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Butler.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_334" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page71" title="71"></a>334.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> fountain of content must spring up + in the mind, 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 + efforts, and multiply the griefs which + he purposes to remove.</p> + <p class="source">Johnson.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_335" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">335.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> all things, to serve from the lowest + station upwards is necessary. To restrict + yourself to a trade is best. For the + narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still + a trade; for the higher, an art; and the + highest in doing one thing does all, or, to + speak less paradoxically, in the one thing + which he does rightly he sees the likeness + of all that is done rightly.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_336" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">336.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Misanthropy</span> ariseth from a man + trusting another without having sufficient + knowledge of his character, and, thinking + him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, + finds a little afterwards that he is + wicked, faithless, and then he meets with + another of the same character. When a + man experiences this often, and more + particularly from those whom he considered + his most dear and best friends, at last, + having frequently made a slip, he hates the + <a class="pagenum" id="page72" title="72"></a>whole world, and thinks that there is + nothing sound at all in any of them.</p> + <p class="source">Plato.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_337" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">337.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Pleasure</span>, most often delusive, may + be born of delusion. Pleasure, herself a + sorceress, may pitch her tents on enchanted + ground. But happiness (or, to use + a more accurate and comprehensive term, + solid well-being) can be built on virtue alone, + and must of necessity have truth for its + foundation.</p> + <p class="source">Coleridge.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_338" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">338.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Entangled</span> in a hundred worldly snares,</p> + <p>Self-seeking men, by ignorance deluded,</p> + <p>Strive by unrighteous means to pile up riches.</p> + <p>Then, in their self-complacency, they say,</p> + <p>“This acquisition I have made to-day,</p> + <p>That will I gain to-morrow, so much pelf</p> + <p>Is hoarded up already, so much more</p> + <p>Remains that I have yet to treasure up.</p> + <p>This enemy I have destroyed, him also,</p> + <p>And others in their turn, I will despatch.</p> + <p>I am a lord; I will enjoy myself;</p> + <p>I’m wealthy, noble, strong, successful, happy;</p> + <p>I’m absolutely perfect; no one else</p> + <p>In all the world can be compared to me.</p> + <p>Now will I offer up a sacrifice,</p> + <p>Give gifts with lavish hand, and be triumphant.”</p> + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page73" title="73"></a>Such men, befooled by endless vain conceits,</p> + <p>Caught in the meshes of the world’s illusion,</p> + <p>Immersed in sensuality, descend</p> + <p>Down to the foulest hell of unclean spirits.*</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + <div id="footnote_16" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. Luke, <span class="bible_chapter">XII</span>, 17-20; see also <a href="#saying_291">291</a>.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_339" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">339.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">There</span> needs no other charm, nor conjuror,</p> + <p>To raise infernal spirits up, but Fear,</p> + <p>That makes men pull their horns in, like a snail,</p> + <p>That’s both a prisoner to itself and jail;</p> + <p>Draws more fantastic shapes than in the grains</p> + <p>Of knotted wood, in some men’s crazy brains,</p> + <p>When all the cocks they think they are, and bulls,</p> + <p>Are only in the insides of their skulls.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Butler.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_340" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">340.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> that rectifies a crooked stick bends + it the contrary way, so must he that + would reform a vice learn to affect its mere + contrary, and in time he shall see the + springing blossoms of a happy restoration.</p> + <p class="source">R. Chamberlain.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_341" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">341.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> more weakness the more falsehood; + strength goes straight: every cannon + <a class="pagenum" id="page74" title="74"></a>ball that has in it hollows and holes goes + crooked.</p> + <p class="source">Richter.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_342" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">342.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Learning</span> dissipates many doubts, and + causes things otherwise invisible to be + seen, and is the eye of everyone who is + not absolutely blind.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_343" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">343.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Very</span> distasteful is excessive fame</p> + <p class="i2">To the sour palate of the envious mind,</p> + <p>Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name,</p> + <p class="i2">And hates the fortune that he ne’er shall find.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Pindar.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_344" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">344.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> more glorious victory cannot be gained + over another man than this, that when + the injury began on his part the kindness + should begin on ours.</p> + <p class="source">Tillotson.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_345" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">345.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Time</span>, which gnaws and diminishes all + things else, augments and increases + benefits, because a noble action of liberality + done to a man of reason doth grow continually + by his generously thinking of it and + remembering it.</p> + <p class="source">Rabelais.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_346" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page75" title="75"></a>346.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Were</span> all thy fond endeavours vain</p> + <p class="i2">To chase away the sufferer’s smart,</p> + <p>Still hover near, lest absence pain</p> + <p class="i14">His lonely heart.</p> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>For friendship’s tones have kindlier power</p> + <p class="i2">Than odorous fruit, or nectared bowl,</p> + <p>To soothe, in sorrow’s languid hour,</p> + <p class="i14">The sinking soul.</p> + </div> + </div> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_347" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">347.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> faults of others are easily perceived, + but those of oneself are difficult to + perceive; a man winnows his neighbour’s + faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides + as a cheat hides the false dice from the + gamester.</p> + <p class="source">Dhammapada.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_348" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">348.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Education</span> and morals will be found + almost the whole that goes to make + a good man.</p> + <p class="source">Aristotle.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_349" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">349.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Toil</span> and pleasure, in their natures opposite, + are yet linked together in a kind + of necessary connection.</p> + <p class="source">Livy.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_350" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">350.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Enjoy</span> thou the prosperity of others,</p> + <p>Although thyself unprosperous; noble men</p> + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page76" title="76"></a>Take pleasure in their neighbours’ happiness.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_351" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">351.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Neither</span> live with a bad man nor be + at enmity with him; even as if you + take hold of glowing charcoal it will burn + you, if you take hold of cold charcoal it + will soil you.</p> + <p class="source">Buddhist.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_352" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">352.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> the sandal-tree are serpents, in the + water lotus flowers, but crocodiles also; + even virtues are marred by the vicious—in + all enjoyments there is something which + impairs our happiness.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_353" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">353.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> is no pleasure of life sprouting + like a tree from one root but there + is some pain joined to it; and again nature + brings good out of evil.</p> + <p class="source">Menander.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_354" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">354.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> manner of giving shows the character + of the giver more than the gift itself. + There is a princely manner of giving and + accepting.</p> + <p class="source">Lavater.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_355" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">355.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Perfect</span> ignorance is quiet, perfect + knowledge is quiet; not so the transition + from the former to the latter.</p> + <p class="source">Carlyle.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_356" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page77" title="77"></a>356.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Superstition</span> is the religion of feeble + minds; and they must be tolerated + in an admixture of it in some trifling or + enthusiastic shape or other; else you will + deprive weak minds of a resource found + necessary to the strongest.</p> + <p class="source">Burke.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_357" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">357.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Fair</span> words without good deeds to a + man in misery are like a saddle of gold + clapped upon a galled horse.</p> + <p class="source">Chamberlain.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_358" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">358.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> is a rabble among the gentry + as well as the commonalty; a sort of + plebeian heads whose fancy moves with + the same wheel as these men—in the same + level with mechanics, though their fortunes + do sometimes gild their infirmities and their + purses compound for their follies.</p> + <p class="source">Sir Thomas Browne.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_359" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">359.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is a common remark that men talk + most who think least; just as frogs cease + their quacking when a light is brought to + the water-side.</p> + <p class="source">Richter.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_360" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">360.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Our</span> time is like our money; when we + change a guinea the shillings escape + as things of small account; when we break + <a class="pagenum" id="page78" title="78"></a>a day by idleness in the morning, the rest + of the hours lose their importance in our + eyes.</p> + <p class="source">Sir Walter Scott.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_361-390"> + <div id="saying_361" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">361.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Vociferation</span> and calmness of character + seldom meet in the same person.</p> + <p class="source">Lavater.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_362" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">362.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Wit</span> and wisdom differ. Wit is upon + the sudden turn, wisdom is in bringing + about ends.</p> + <p class="source">Selden.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_363" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">363.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Real</span> and solid happiness springs from + moderation.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_364" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">364.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">In</span> all the world there is no vice</p> + <p>Less prone t’excess than avarice;</p> + <p>It neither cares for food nor clothing:</p> + <p>Nature’s content with little, that with nothing.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Butler.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_365" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">365.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Beside</span> the streamlet seated, mark how life glides on:</p> + <p>That sign, how swift each moment goes, to me’s enough.</p> + <p>Behold this world’s delights, and view its various pains:</p> + <p>If not to you, the joy it shows to me’s enough.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Hāfiz.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_366" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page79" title="79"></a>366.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">The</span> lake no longer water holds—</p> + <p>Off fly the fowls, the lilies stay:</p> + <p>If friends are friends when wealth is gone,</p> + <p>The lily’s constancy they share.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Hindu Poetess.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_367" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">367.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Let</span> us be well persuaded that everyone + of us possesses happiness in proportion + to his virtue and wisdom, and + according as he acts in obedience to their + suggestion.</p> + <p class="source">Aristotle.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_368" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">368.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">All</span> property which comes to hand by + means of violence, or infamy, or + baseness, however large it may be, is tainted + and unblest. On the other hand, whatever + is obtained by honest profit, small + though it be, brings a blessing with it.*</p> + <p class="source">Akhlak-i-Jalālī.</p> + <div id="footnote_17" class="footnote"> + <p>* See <a href="#saying_44">44</a>.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_369" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">369.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">We</span> should know mankind better if + we were not so anxious to resemble + one another.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_370" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">370.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Root</span> out the love of self, as you might + the autumn lotus with your hand.</p> + <p class="source">Buddhist.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_371" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page80" title="80"></a>371.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Whoever</span> has the seed of virtue and + honour implanted in his breast will + drop a sympathising tear on the woes of + his neighbour.</p> + <p class="source">Nakhshabī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_372" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">372.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Do</span> naught to others which, if done to + thee, would cause thee pain: this is the + sum of duty.*</p> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + <div id="footnote_18" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. Matt. <span class="bible_chapter">VII</span>, 12.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_373" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">373.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> bad man, though raised to honour, + always returns to his natural course, + as a dog’s tail, though warmed by the fire + and rubbed with oil, retains its form.*</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + <div id="footnote_19" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. Arab proverb: “A dog’s tail never can be made straight.”</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_374" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">374.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> man who cannot blush, and who + has no feelings of fear, has reached + the acme of impudence.</p> + <p class="source">Menander.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_375" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">375.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is the usual consolation of the envious, + if they cannot maintain their superiority, + to represent those by whom they are + surpassed as inferior to some one else.</p> + <p class="source">Plutarch.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_376" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page81" title="81"></a>376.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Such</span> as the chain of causes we call Fate, + such is the chain of wishes: one links + on to another; the whole man is bound in + the chain of wishing for ever.</p> + <p class="source">Seneca.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_377" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">377.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">I</span> do remember stopping by the way,</p> + <p>To watch a potter thumping his wet clay;</p> + <p class="i2">And with its all-obliterated tongue</p> + <p>It murmured, “Gently, brother, gently, pray!”</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Omar Khayyām.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_378" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">378.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> you only knew the evils which others + suffer, you would willingly submit to + those which you now bear.</p> + <p class="source">Philemon.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_379" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">379.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Children</span> form a bond of union than + which the human heart finds none + more enduring.</p> + <p class="source">Livy.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_380" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">380.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">The</span> sweetest pleasures soonest cloy,</p> + <p>And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Juvenal.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_381" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">381.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">To</span> our own sorrows serious heed we give,</p> + <p>But for another’s we soon cease to grieve.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Pindar.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_382" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page82" title="82"></a>382.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Can</span> anything be more absurd than that + the nearer we are to our journey’s + end, we should lay in the more provision + for it?</p> + <p class="source">Cicero.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_383" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">383.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Set</span> about whatever you intend to do; + the beginning is half the battle.</p> + <p class="source">Ausonius.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_384" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">384.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">All</span> smatterers are more brisk and pert</p> + <p>Than those who understand an art;</p> + <p>As little sparkles shine more bright</p> + <p>Than glowing coals that gave them light.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Butler.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_385" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">385.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">No</span> prince, how great soever, begets his + predecessors, and the noblest rivers are + not navigable to the fountain.</p> + <p class="source">A. Marvell.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_386" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">386.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> guilty man may escape, but he cannot + be sure of doing so.</p> + <p class="source">Epicurus.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_387" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">387.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> everything you will find annoyances, + but you ought to consider whether the + advantages do not predominate.</p> + <p class="source">Menander.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_388" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">388.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Dreams</span> in general take their rise + from those incidents which have + <a class="pagenum" id="page83" title="83"></a>most occupied the thoughts during the day.</p> + <p class="source">Herodotus.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_389" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">389.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Sleeping</span>, we image what awake we wish;</p> + <p>Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.*</p> + </div> + <div id="footnote_20" class="footnote"> + <p>Cf. Arab proverb: “The dream of the cat is always about mice.”</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Theocritus.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_390" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">390.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> man who does not endeavour to + <em>seem</em> more than he is will generally + be thought nothing of. We habitually make + such large deductions for pretence and imposture + that no real merit will stand against + them. It is necessary to set off our good + qualities with a certain air of plausibility + and self-importance, as some attention to + fashion is necessary.</p> + <p class="source">Hazlitt.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_391-420"> + <div id="saying_391" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">391.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> is nothing more beautiful than + cheerfulness in an old face, and among + country people it is always a sign of a + well-regulated life.</p> + <p class="source">Richter.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_392" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">392.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">From</span> things which have been obtained + after having been long desired men + almost never derive the pleasure and delight + which they had anticipated.</p> + <p class="source">Guicciardini.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_393" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page84" title="84"></a>393.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Seest</span> thou good days? Prepare for evil + times. No summer but hath its winter. + He never reaped comfort in adversity + that sowed not in prosperity.</p> + <p class="source">Quarles.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_394" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">394.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Every</span> man knows his own but not + others’ defects and miseries; and ’tis + the nature of all men still to reflect upon + themselves their own misfortunes, not to + examine or consider other men’s, not to + confer themselves with others; to recount + their own miseries but not their good gifts, + fortunes, benefits which they have, to ruminate + on their adversity, but not once to think + on their prosperity, not what they have but + what they want.</p> + <p class="source">Burton.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_395" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">395.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Some</span> people, you would think, are made + up of nothing but title and genealogy; + the stamp of dignity defaces in them the + very character of humanity, and transports + them to such a degree of haughtiness that + they reckon it below them to exercise good + nature or good manners.</p> + <p class="source">L’Estrange.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_396" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">396.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> alone is poor who does not possess + knowledge.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_397" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page85" title="85"></a>397.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is not enough to know; we must apply + what we know. It is not enough to will; + we must also act.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_398" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">398.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Words</span> of blame from those who are + hostile to a great man cannot injure + him. The moon is not hurt when barked + at by a dog.</p> + <p class="source">Arabic.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_399" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">399.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> value of three things is justly appreciated + by all classes of men: youth, by the + old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, + by the needy.</p> + <p class="source">Omar Khayyām.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_400" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">400.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">As</span> one might nurse a tiny flame,</p> + <p>The able and far-seeing man,</p> + <p>E’en with the smallest capital,</p> + <p>Can raise himself to wealth.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Buddhist.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_401" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">401.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">By</span> a husband wealth is accumulated; by + a wife is its preservation.</p> + <p class="source">Burmese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_402" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">402.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is very hard for the mind to disengage + itself from a subject on which it has + been long employed. The thoughts will be + rising of themselves from time to time, + though we have given them no encouragement, + <a class="pagenum" id="page86" title="86"></a>as the tossings and fluctuations of + the sea continue several hours after the + winds are laid.</p> + <p class="source">Addison.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_403" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">403.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Hypocrisy</span> will serve as well</p> + <p>To propagate a church as zeal;</p> + <p>As persecution and promotion</p> + <p>Do equally advance devotion:</p> + <p>So round white stones will serve, they say,</p> + <p>As well as eggs, to make hens lay.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Butler.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_404" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">404.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Man</span> differs from other animals particularly + in this, that he is imitative, + and acquires his rudiments of knowledge + in this way; besides, the delight in imitation + is universal.</p> + <p class="source">Aristotle.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_405" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">405.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> hooting fowler seldom takes much + game. When a man has a project in + his mind, digested and fixed by consideration, + it is wise to keep it secret till the + time that his designs arrive at their despatch + and perfection. He is unwise who brags + much either of what he will do or what + he shall have, for if what he speaks of + fall not out accordingly, instead of applause, + a mock and scorn will follow him.</p> + <p class="source">Feltham.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_406" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page87" title="87"></a>406.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">What</span> is the most profitable? Fellowship + with the good. What is the + worst thing in the world? The society of + evil men. What is the greatest loss? + Failure in one’s duty. Where is the greatest + peace? In truth and righteousness. Who + is the hero? The man who subdues his + senses. Who is the best beloved? The + faithful wife. What is wealth? Knowledge. + What is the most perfect happiness? Staying + at home.</p> + <p class="source">Bhartrihari.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_407" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">407.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> a man says that it is right to give + every one his due, and therefore thinks + within his own mind that injury is due + from a just man to his enemies but kindness + to his friends, he was not wise who + said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in + no case has it appeared to be just to + injure any one.*</p> + <p class="source">Plato.</p> + <div id="footnote_21" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. Matt. <span class="bible_chapter">V</span>, 43, 44.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_408" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">408.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Faith</span> is like love, it cannot be forced. + Therefore it is a dangerous operation + if an attempt be made to introduce or bind + it by state regulations; for, as the attempt + to force love begets hatred, so also to + compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.</p> + <p class="source">Schopenhauer.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_409" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page88" title="88"></a>409.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">We</span> are like vessels tossed on the bosom + of the deep; our passions are the + winds that sweep us impetuously forward; + each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is + a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide + us, but often allows itself to be led astray + by the storms of pride.</p> + <p class="source">Metastasio.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_410" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">410.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Empty</span> is the house of a childless man; + as empty is the mind of a bachelor; + empty are all quarters of the world to an + ignorant man; but poverty is total emptiness.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_411" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">411.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> wicked have no stability, for they + do not remain in consistency with + themselves; they continue friends only for + a short time, rejoicing in each other’s + wickedness.</p> + <p class="source">Aristotle.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_412" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">412.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is the natural disposition of all men to + listen with pleasure to abuse and slander + of their neighbour, and to hear with + impatience those who utter praises of themselves.</p> + <p class="source">Demosthenes.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_413" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">413.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> man ought not to return evil for evil, + as many think, since at no time + <a class="pagenum" id="page89" title="89"></a>ought we to do an injury to our neighbour.*</p> + <p class="source">Plato.</p> + <div id="footnote_22" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. Rom. <span class="bible_chapter">XII</span>, 19; 1 Thess. <span class="bible_chapter">V</span>, 15.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_414" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">414.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> all that belongs to man you cannot + find a greater wonder than memory. + What a treasury of all things! What a + record! What a journal of all! As if + provident Nature, because she would have + man circumspect, had furnished him with + an account-book, to carry always with him. + Yet it neither burthens nor takes up room.</p> + <p class="source">Feltham.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_415" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">415.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> who will not freely and sadly confess + that he is <em>much</em> a fool is <em>all</em> a fool.</p> + <p class="source">Fuller.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_416" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">416.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> man with hoary head is not revered + as aged by the gods, but only he who + has true knowledge; he, though young, is + old.</p> + <p class="source">Manu.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_417" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">417.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">No</span> fathers and mothers think their own + children ugly, and this self-deceit is + yet stronger with respect to the offspring + of the mind.</p> + <p class="source">Cervantes.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_418" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">418.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, + and gaudiness. Be not too + <a class="pagenum" id="page90" title="90"></a>early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency + is half way between affectation and neglect. + The body is the shell of the soul, apparel + is the husk of that shell; the husk often + tells you what the kernel is.</p> + <p class="source">Quarles.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_419" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">419.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">We</span> have more faith in a well-written + romance while we are reading it than + in common history. The vividness of the + representations in the one case more than + counterbalances the mere knowledge of + the truth of facts in the other.</p> + <p class="source">Hazlitt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_420" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">420.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is easy to lose important opportunities, + and difficult to regain them; therefore + when they present themselves it is the more + necessary to make every effort to retain + them.</p> + <p class="source">Guicciardini.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_421-450"> + <div id="saying_421" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">421.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Among</span> wonderful things is a sore-eyed + man who is an oculist.</p> + <p class="source">Arabic.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_422" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">422.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Gold</span> gives the appearance of beauty + even to ugliness; but everything becomes + frightful with poverty.</p> + <p class="source">Boileau.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_423" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">423.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">When</span> the scale of sensuality bears + down that of reason, the baseness of + <a class="pagenum" id="page91" title="91"></a>our nature conducts us to most preposterous + conclusions.</p> + <p class="source">R. Chamberlain.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_424" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">424.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Idleness</span> is a great enemy to mankind. + There is no friend like energy, for, if you + cultivate that, it will never fail.</p> + <p class="source">Bhartrihari.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_425" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">425.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> greatest difficulties lie where we are + not looking for them.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_426" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">426.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">We</span> must oblige everybody as much + as we can; we have often need of + assistance from those inferior to ourselves.</p> + <p class="source">La Fontaine.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_427" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">427.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">We</span> magnify the wealthy man, though + his parts be never so poor. The + poor man we despise, be he never so well + qualified. Gold is the coverlet of imperfections. + It is the fool’s curtain, which + hides all his defects from the world.</p> + <p class="source">Feltham.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_428" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">428.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> is nothing more operative than + sedulity and diligence. A man would + wonder at the mighty things which have + been done by degrees and gentle augmentations. + Diligence and moderation are the + <a class="pagenum" id="page92" title="92"></a>best steps whereby to climb to any excellence, + nay, it is rare that there is any other + other way.</p> + <p class="source">Feltham.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_429" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">429.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> sooth, it is a shame to choose rather + to be still borrowing in all places, from + everybody, than to work and win.</p> + <p class="source">Rabelais.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_430" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">430.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Behaviour</span> is a mirror in which + every one shows his image.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_431" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">431.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> is nothing more daring than + ignorance.</p> + <p class="source">Menander.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_432" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">432.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is not easy to stop the fire when the + water is at a distance; friends at hand + are better than relations afar off.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_433" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">433.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> lustre of a virtuous character cannot + be defaced, nor can the vices of + a vicious man ever become lucid. A jewel + preserves its lustre, though trodden in the + mud, but a brass pot, though placed upon + the head, is brass still.</p> + <p class="source">Panchatantra.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_434" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">434.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Noble</span> birth is an accident of fortune, + noble actions characterise the great.</p> + <p class="source"><span class="errata" title="original reads Goldini">Goldoni.</span></p> + </div> + <div id="saying_435" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page93" title="93"></a>435.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Simplicity</span> of character is the natural + result of profound thought.</p> + <p class="source">Hazlitt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_436" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">436.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">When</span> anyone is modest, not after + praise, but after censure, then he is + really so.</p> + <p class="source">Richter.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_437" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">437.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Experience</span> has always shown, and + reason shows, that affairs which depend + on many seldom succeed.</p> + <p class="source">Guicciardini.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_438" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">438.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Give</span> not thy tongue too great a liberty, + lest it take thee prisoner. A word unspoken + is like thy sword in thy scabbard; + if vented, the sword is in another’s hand.* + If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise + as to hold thy tongue.</p> + <p class="source">Quarles.</p> + <div id="footnote_23" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. <a href="#saying_221">221</a>; also Metastasio:</p> + <div class="poem"> + <p>Voce dal fuggita</p> + <p class="i2">Poi richiamar non vale;</p> + <p class="i2">Non si trattien lo strale</p> + <p class="i2">Quando dall’ arco uscì.</p> + </div> + <p>[The word that once escapes the tongue cannot be + recalled; the arrow cannot be detained which has once + sped from the bow.]</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_439" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">439.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> old lose one of the greatest privileges + of man, for they are no longer + judged by their contemporaries.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_440" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page94" title="94"></a>440.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">When</span> the man of a naturally good + propensity has much wealth it injures + his advancement in wisdom; when a + worthless man has much wealth it increases + his faults.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_441" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">441.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> youth a man is deluded by other + ideas than those which delude him in + middle life, and again in his decay he + embraces other ideas.</p> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_442" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">442.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">To</span> consider, Is this man of our own or + an alien? is a mark of little-minded + persons; but the whole earth is of kin to + the generous-hearted.*</p> + <p class="source">Panchatantra.</p> + <div id="footnote_24" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. Luke, <span class="bible_chapter">X</span>, 29, ff.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_443" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">443.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Skill</span> in advising others is easily attained + by men; but to practise righteousness + themselves is what only a few + can succeed in doing.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_444" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">444.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Hast</span> thou not perfect excellence, ’tis best</p> + <p class="i2">To keep thy tongue in silence, for ’tis this</p> + <p>Which shames a man; as lightness does attest</p> + <p class="i2">The nut is empty, nor of value is.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_445" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page95" title="95"></a>445.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Understand</span> a man by his deeds + and words; the impressions of others + lead to false judgment.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_446" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">446.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> man of feeble character resembles + a reed that bends with every gust of + wind.</p> + <p class="source">Māgha.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_447" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">447.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> is no fire like passion; there is + no shark like hatred; there is no snare + like folly; there is no torrent like greed.</p> + <p class="source">Dhammapada.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_448" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">448.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Commit</span> a sin twice, and it will not + seem to thee a sin.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_449" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">449.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Liberality</span> attended with mild language; + learning without pride; valour + united with mercy; wealth accompanied + with a generous contempt of it—these four + qualities are with difficulty acquired.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_450" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">450.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Inquire</span> about your neighbour before + you build, and about your companions + before you travel.</p> + <p class="source">Arabic.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_451-480"> + <div id="saying_451" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">451.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Though</span> you may yourself abound in + treasure, teach your son some handicraft; + <a class="pagenum" id="page96" title="96"></a>for a heavy purse of gold and silver + may run to waste, but the purse of the + artisan’s industry can never get empty.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_452" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">452.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is an observation no less just than + common that there is no stronger test + of a man’s real character than power and + authority, exciting, as they do, every passion, + and discovering every latent vice.</p> + <p class="source">Plutarch.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_453" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">453.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Rather</span> skin a carcass for pay in the + public streets than be idly dependent + on charity.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_454" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">454.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Knowledge</span> produces mildness of + speech; mildness of speech, a good + character; a good character, wealth; wealth, + if virtuous actions attend it, happiness.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_455" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">455.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">O</span> how wonderful is the human voice! + It is indeed the organ of the soul. + The intellect of man sits enshrined visibly + upon his forehead and in his eye; and the + heart of man is written upon his countenance. + But the soul reveals itself in the + voice only, as God revealed himself to the + prophet in the still small voice, and in a + <a class="pagenum" id="page97" title="97"></a>voice from the Burning Bush. The soul + of man is audible, not visible. A sound + alone betrays the flowing of the eternal + fountain invisible to man.</p> + <p class="source">Longfellow.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_456" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">456.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Every</span> gift, though small, is in reality + great, if it be given with affection.*</p> + <p class="source">Philemon.</p> + <div id="footnote_25" class="footnote"> + <p>* See also <a href="#saying_80">80</a>.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_457" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">457.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Good</span> words, good deeds, and beautiful expressions</p> + <p>A wise man ever culls from every quarter,</p> + <p>E’en as a gleaner gathers ears of corn.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_458" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">458.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> poverty and other misfortunes of life + men think friends to be their only refuge. + The young they keep out of mischief, + to the old they are a comfort and + aid in their weakness, and those in the + prime of life they incite to noble deeds.</p> + <p class="source">Aristotle.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_459" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">459.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Heed</span> not the flatterer’s fulsome talk,</p> + <p class="i2">He from thee hopes some trifle to obtain;</p> + <p>Thou wilt, shouldst thou his wishes baulk,</p> + <p class="i2">Ten hundred times as much of censure gain.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_460" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page98" title="98"></a>460.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">By</span> the fall of water-drops the pot is + filled: such is the increase of riches, + of knowledge, and of virtue.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_461" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">461.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">We</span> deliberate about the parcels of life, + but not about life itself, and so we + arrive all unawares at its different epochs, + and have the trouble of beginning all again. + And so finally it is that we do not walk + as men confidently towards death, but let + death come suddenly upon us.</p> + <p class="source">Seneca.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_462" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">462.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is no very good symptom, either of + nations or individuals, that they deal + much in vaticination. Happy men are full + of the present, for its bounty suffices them; + and wise men also, for its duties engage + them. Our grand business undoubtedly is + not to see what lies dimly at a distance, + but to do what clearly lies at hand.</p> + <p class="source">Carlyle.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_463" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">463.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Law</span> does not put the least restraint</p> + <p>Upon our freedom, but maintain’st;</p> + <p>Or, if it does, ’tis for our good,</p> + <p>To give us freer latitude:</p> + <p>For wholesome laws preserve us free,</p> + <p>By stinting of our liberty.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Butler.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_464" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page99" title="99"></a>464.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is only necessary to grow old in order + to become more indulgent. I see no fault + committed that I have not been myself + inclined to.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_465" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">465.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Even</span> a blockhead may respect inspire,</p> + <p>So long as he is suitably attired;</p> + <p>A fool may gain esteem among the wise,</p> + <p>So long as he has sense to hold his tongue.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_466" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">466.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> wise man should never resolve upon + anything, at least, never let the world + know his resolution, for if he cannot reach + that he is ashamed.*</p> + <p class="source">Selden.</p> + <div id="footnote_26" class="footnote"> + <p>* See <a href="#saying_406">406</a>.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_467" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">467.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Men’s</span> minds are generally ingenious in + palliating guilt in themselves.</p> + <p class="source">Livy.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_468" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">468.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Prosperity</span> is acquired by exertion, + and there is no fruit for him who doth + not exert himself: the fawns go not into + the mouth of a sleeping lion.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_469" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">469.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Wickedness</span>, by whomsoever committed, + is odious, but most of all in + men of learning; for learning is the weapon + with which Satan is combated, and when + <a class="pagenum" id="page100" title="100"></a>a man is made captive with arms in his + hand his shame is more excessive.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_470" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">470.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> that will give himself to all manner + of ways to get money may be rich; + so he that lets fly all he knows or thinks + may by chance be satirically witty. Honesty + sometimes keeps a man from growing rich, + and civility from being witty.</p> + <p class="source">Selden.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_471" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">471.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Men</span> are not rich or poor according + to what they possess but to what they + desire. The only rich man is he that with + content enjoys a competence.</p> + <p class="source">R. Chamberlain.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_472" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">472.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Poverty</span> is not dishonourable in itself, + but only when it arises from idleness, + intemperance, extravagance, and folly.</p> + <p class="source">Plutarch.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_473" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">473.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Do</span> nothing rashly; want of circumspection + is the chief cause of failure and + disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, + selects him for her lord who ere he acts + reflects.</p> + <p class="source">Bhāravi.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_474" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">474.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">First</span> think, and if thy thoughts approve thy will,</p> + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page101" title="101"></a>Then speak, and after, what thou speak’st fulfil.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Randolph.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_475" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">475.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> cannot but be injurious to the human + mind never to be called into effort: the + habit of receiving pleasure without any + exertion of thought, by the mere excitement + of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly + ranked among the worst effects of habitual + novel-reading.</p> + <p class="source">Coleridge.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_476" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">476.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Patience</span> is the chiefest fruit of study; + a man that strives to make himself + different from other men by much reading + gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes + he hath something to entertain and comfort + himself withal.</p> + <p class="source">Selden.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_477" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">477.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Friendship</span> throws a greater lustre on + prosperity, while it lightens adversity by + sharing in its griefs and troubles.</p> + <p class="source">Cicero.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_478" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">478.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> is nothing more becoming a + wise man than to make choice of + friends, for by them thou shalt be judged + what thou art. Let them therefore be + wise and virtuous, and none of those that + follow thee for gain; but make election + rather of thy betters than thy inferiors; + <a class="pagenum" id="page102" title="102"></a>shunning always such as are poor and needy, + for if thou givest twenty gifts and refuse to + do the like but once, all that thou hast + done will be lost, and such men will become + thy mortal enemies.</p> + <p class="source">Sir W. Raleigh, to his Son.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_479" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">479.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Learning</span> is like Scanderbeg’s sword, + either good or bad according to him + who hath it: an excellent weapon, if well + used; otherwise, like a sharp razor in the + hand of a child.</p> + <p class="source">R. Chamberlain.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_480" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">480.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> greater part of mankind employ + their first years to make their last + miserable.</p> + <p class="source">La Bruyère.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_481-510"> + <div id="saying_481" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">481.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">I</span> hate the miser, whose unsocial breast</p> + <p>Locks from the world his useless stores.</p> + <p>Wealth by the bounteous only is enjoyed,</p> + <p>Whose treasures, in diffusive good employed,</p> + <p>The rich return of fame and friends procure,</p> + <p>And ’gainst a sad reverse a safe retreat secure.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Pindar.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_482" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">482.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Wisdom</span> alone is the true and unalloyed + coin for which we ought to + exchange all things, for this and with this + everything is bought and sold—fortitude, + <a class="pagenum" id="page103" title="103"></a>temperance, and justice; in a word, true + virtue subsists with wisdom.</p> + <p class="source">Plato.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_483" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">483.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> thou intendest to do a good act, do it + quickly, and then thou wilt excite gratitude; + a favour if it be slow in being + conferred causes ingratitude.</p> + <p class="source">Ausonius.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_484" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">484.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">’Tis</span> those who reverence the old</p> + <p>That are the men versed in the Faith;</p> + <p>Worthy of praise while in this life,</p> + <p>And happy in the life to come.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Buddhist.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_485" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">485.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Low</span>-minded men are occupied solely + with their own affairs, but noble-minded + men take special interest in the affairs + of others. The submarine fire drinks up + the ocean, to fill its insatiable interior; the + rain-cloud, that it may relieve the drought + of the earth, burnt up by the hot season.</p> + <p class="source">Bhartrihari.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_486" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">486.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Those</span> men are wise who do not desire + the unattainable, who do not love to + mourn over what is lost, and are not overwhelmed + by calamities.</p> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_487" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">487.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Let</span> him take heart who does advance, + even in the smallest degree.</p> + <p class="source">Plato.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_488" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page104" title="104"></a>488.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> truly great man never puts away the + simplicity of a child.*</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + <div id="footnote_27" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. Pope, in his Epitaph on the poet Gay:</p> + <div class="poem"> + <p>Of manners gentle, of affections mild;</p> + <p>In wit a man, simplicity, a child.</p> + </div> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_489" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">489.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> thou desirest ease in this life, keep + thy secrets undisclosed, like the modest + rosebud. Take warning from that lovely + flower, which, by expanding its hitherto + hidden beauties when in full bloom, gives + its leaves and its happiness to the winds.</p> + <p class="source">Persian.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_490" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">490.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> husband is the chief ornament of + a wife, though she have no other ornament; + but, though adorned, without a + husband she has no ornaments.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_491" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">491.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> who has more learning than goodness + is like a tree with many branches + and few roots, which the first wind throws + down; whilst he whose works are greater + than his knowledge is like a tree with many + roots and fewer branches, which all the + winds of heaven cannot uproot.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_492" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">492.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> that would build lastingly must lay + his foundation low. The proud man, + <a class="pagenum" id="page105" title="105"></a>like the early shoots of a new-felled coppice, + thrusts out full of sap, green in leaves, and + fresh in colour, but bruises and breaks + with every wind, is nipped with every little + cold, and, being top-heavy, is wholly unfit + for use. Whereas the humble man retains + it in the root, can abide the winter’s killing + blast, the ruffling concussions of the wind, + and can endure far more than that which + appears so flourishing.</p> + <p class="source">Feltham.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_493" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">493.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> man who has not anything to boast + of but his illustrious ancestors is like + a potato—the only good belonging to him + is underground.</p> + <p class="source">Sir Thos. Overbury.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_494" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">494.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">When</span> men will not be reasoned out + of a vanity, they must be ridiculed + out of it.</p> + <p class="source">L’Estrange.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_495" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">495.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Women</span> are ever in extremes, they + are either better or worse than men.</p> + <p class="source">La Bruyère.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_496" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">496.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">An</span> absent friend gives us friendly company + when we are well assured of his + happiness.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_497" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page106" title="106"></a>497.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> man of worth is really great without + being proud; the mean man is proud + without being really great.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_498" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">498.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Liberality</span> consists less in giving much + than in giving at the right moment.</p> + <p class="source">La Bruyère.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_499" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">499.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Outward</span> perfection without inward + goodness sets but the blacker dye + on the mind’s deformity.</p> + <p class="source">R. Chamberlain.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_500" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">500.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">As</span> a solid rock is not shaken by the + wind, so wise men falter not amidst + blame or praise.</p> + <p class="source">Dhammapada.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_501" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">501.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Of</span> what avail is the praise or censure + of the vulgar, who make a useless + noise like a senseless crow in a forest?</p> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_502" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">502.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Hark</span>! here the sound of lute so sweet,</p> + <p>And there the voice of wailing loud;</p> + <p>Here scholars grave in conclave meet,</p> + <p>There howls the brawling drunken crowd;</p> + <p>Here, charming maidens full of glee,</p> + <p>There, tottering, withered dames we see.</p> + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page107" title="107"></a>Such light! Such shade! I cannot tell,</p> + <p>If here we live in heaven or hell.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Bhartrihari.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_503" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">503.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> every-day cares and duties which + men call drudgery are the weights + and counterpoises of the clock of Time, + giving its pendulum a true vibration, and + its hands a regular motion; and when they + cease to hang upon the wheels, the pendulum + no longer sways, the hands no longer + move, the clock stands still.</p> + <p class="source">Longfellow.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_504" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">504.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> man of little learning deems that little + a great deal; a frog, never having + seen the ocean, considers its well a great sea.</p> + <p class="source">Burmese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_505" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">505.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Trust</span> not thy secret to a confidant, for + he too will have his associates and + friends; and it will spread abroad through + the whole city, and men will call thee + weak-headed.</p> + <p class="source">Firdausī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_506" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">506.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Labour</span> like a man, and be ready in + doing kindnesses. He is a good-for-nothing + fellow who eateth by the toil of + another’s hand.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.*</p> + <div id="footnote_28" class="footnote"> + <p>* See also <a href="#saying_429">429</a>, <a href="#saying_453">453</a>.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_507" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page108" title="108"></a>507.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Let</span> every man sweep the snow from + before his own doors, and not busy + himself about the frost on his neighbour’s + tiles.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_508" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">508.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">With</span> knowledge, say, what other wealth</p> + <p>Can vie, which neither thieves by stealth</p> + <p>Can take, nor kinsmen make their prey,</p> + <p>Which, lavished, never wastes away.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Sanskrit.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_509" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">509.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Women’s</span> wealth is beauty, learning, + that of men.</p> + <p class="source">Burmese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_510" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">510.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Prosperity</span> attends the lion-hearted + man who exerts himself, while we say, + destiny will ensure it. Laying aside destiny, + show manly fortitude by thy own strength: + if thou endeavour, and thy endeavours fail + of success, what crime is there in failing?</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_511-540"> + <div id="saying_511" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">511.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Spare</span> not, nor spend too much, be this thy care,</p> + <p>Spare but to spend, and only spend to spare.</p> + <p>Who spends too much may want, and so complain;</p> + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page109" title="109"></a>But he spends best that spares to spend again.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Randolph.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_512" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">512.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Everything</span> that is acknowledges the + blessing of existence. Shalt not thou, + by a similar acknowledgment, be happy? + If thou pay due attention to sounds, thou + shalt hear the praise of the Creator celebrated + by the whole creation.</p> + <p class="source">Nakhshabī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_513" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">513.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">The</span> attribute most noble of the hand</p> + <p>Is readiness in giving; of the head,</p> + <p>Bending before a teacher; of the mouth,</p> + <p>Veracious speaking; of a victor’s arms,</p> + <p>Undaunted valour; of the inner heart,</p> + <p>Pureness the most unsullied; of the ears,</p> + <p>Delight in hearing and receiving truth—These</p> + <p>are adornments of high-minded men,</p> + <p>Better than all the majesty of Empire.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Bhartrihari.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_514" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">514.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> mere reality of life would be inconceivably + poor without the charm of + fancy, which brings in its bosom as many + vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much + oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay + flattering hue than one which inspires terror.</p> + <p class="source">Von Humboldt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_515" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page110" title="110"></a>515.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Stupidity</span> has its sublime as well + as genius, and he who carries that + quality to absurdity has reached it, which + is always a source of pleasure to sensible + people.</p> + <p class="source">Wieland.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_516" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">516.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is curious to note the old sea-margins + of human thought. Each subsiding century + reveals some new mystery; we build + where monsters used to hide themselves.</p> + <p class="source">Longfellow.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_517" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">517.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Women</span> never reason and therefore + they are, comparatively, seldom wrong. + They judge instinctively of what falls under + their immediate observation or experience, + and do not trouble themselves about + remote or doubtful consequences. If they + make no profound discoveries, they do not + involve themselves in gross absurdities. + It is only by the help of reason and logical + inference, according to Hobbes, that “man + becomes excellently wise or excellently + foolish.”</p> + <p class="source">Hazlitt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_518" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">518.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Reprove</span> not in their wrath incensèd men,</p> + <p>Good counsel comes clean out of season then;</p> + <p>But when his fury is appeased and past,</p> + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page111" title="111"></a>He will conceive his fault and mend at last:</p> + <p>When he is cool and calm, then utter it;</p> + <p>No man gives physic in the midst o’ th’ fit.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Randolph.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_519" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">519.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is not flesh and blood, it is the heart, + that makes fathers and sons.</p> + <p class="source">Schiller.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_520" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">520.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Discontent</span> is like ink poured into + water, which fills the whole fountain + full of blackness. It casts a cloud over + the mind, and renders it more occupied + about the evil which disquiets it than about + the means of removing it.</p> + <p class="source">Feltham.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_521" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">521.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">We</span> are accustomed to see men deride + what they do not understand, and + snarl at the good and beautiful because it + lies beyond their sympathies.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_522" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">522.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> just and reasonable modesty does + not only recommend eloquence, but sets + off every talent which a man can be possessed + of. It heightens all the virtues which + it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, + it raises and rounds every figure, and makes + the colours more beautiful, though not so + glowing as they would be without it.</p> + <p class="source">Addison.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_523" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page112" title="112"></a>523.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Happy</span> the man who lives at home, + making it his business to regulate his + desires.</p> + <p class="source">La Fontaine.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_524" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">524.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is true that men are no fit judges of + themselves, because commonly they are + partial to their own cause; yet it is as + true that he who will dispose himself to + judge indifferently of himself can do it + better than any body else, because a man + can see farther into his own mind and + heart than any one else can.</p> + <p class="source">Harrington.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_525" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">525.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Envy</span> is a vice that would pose a man + to tell what it should be liked for. + Other vices we assume for that we falsely + suppose they bring us either pleasure, profit, + or honour. But in envy who is it can + find any of these? Instead of pleasure, we + vex and gall ourselves. Like cankered + brass, it only eats itself, nay, discolours + and renders it noisome. When some one + told Agis that those of his neighbour’s + family did envy him, “Why, then,” says + he, “they have a double vexation—one, + with their own evil, the other, at my + prosperity.”</p> + <p class="source">Feltham.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_526" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page113" title="113"></a>526.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> most silent people are generally + those who think most highly of themselves. + They fancy themselves superior to + every one else, and, not being sure of + making good their secret pretensions, decline + entering the lists altogether. Thus they + “lay the flattering unction to their souls” + that they could have said better things than + others, or that the conversation was beneath + them.</p> + <p class="source">Hazlitt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_527" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">527.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is commonly a dangerous thing for a + man to have more sense than his neighbours. + Socrates paid for his superiority with + his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, accused + as he was of heresy by the chief + priest Eurymedon, it was because he took + to his heels in time.</p> + <p class="source">Wieland.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_528" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">528.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Flattery</span> may be considered as a mode + of companionship, degrading but profitable + to him who flatters.</p> + <p class="source">Theophrastus.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_529" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">529.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Rich</span> presents, though profusely given, + Are not so dear to righteous Heaven + As gifts by honest gains supplied, + Though small, which faith hath sanctified.</p> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_530" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page114" title="114"></a>530.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">To-day</span> is thine to spend, but not to-morrow;</p> + <p>Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow:</p> + <p class="i2">O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee;</p> + <p>Make not too sure another breath to borrow.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Omar Khayyām.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_531" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">531.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Leave</span> not the business of to-day to be + done to-morrow; for who knoweth what + may be thy condition to-morrow? The + rose-garden, which to-day is full of flowers, + when to-morrow thou wouldst pluck a rose, + may not afford thee one.</p> + <p class="source">Firdausī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_532" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">532.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Virtue</span> beameth from a generous spirit + as light from the moon, or as brilliancy + from Jupiter.</p> + <p class="source">Nizāmī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_533" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">533.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> worth of a horse is known by its + speed, the value of oxen by their carrying + power, the worth of a cow by its + milk-giving capacity, and that of a wise man + by his speech.</p> + <p class="source">Burmese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_534" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">534.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Men</span> of genius are often dull and inert + in society, as the blazing meteor + <a class="pagenum" id="page115" title="115"></a>when it descends to earth is only a stone.</p> + <p class="source">Longfellow.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_535" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">535.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> a man die young he hath left us at + dinner; it is bed-time with a man of + three score and ten; and he that lives a + hundred years hath walked a mile after supper. + This life is but one day of three meals, or + one meal of three courses—childhood, youth, + and old age. To sup well is to live well, + and that’s the way to sleep well.</p> + <p class="source">Overbury.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_536" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">536.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> is nothing keeps longer than a + middling fortune, and nothing melts + away sooner than a great one. Poverty + treads upon the heels of great and unexpected + riches.</p> + <p class="source">La Bruyère.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_537" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">537.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Society</span> is a more level surface than + we imagine. Wise men or absolute + fools are hard to be met with, as there are + few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge + we can bring against the general texture + of society is that it is commonplace. Our + fancied superiority to others is in some one + thing which we think most of because we + excel in it, or have paid most attention to + it; whilst we overlook their superiority to + us in something else which they set equal + and exclusive store by.</p> + <p class="source">Hazlitt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_538" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page116" title="116"></a>538.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is resignation and contentment that are + best calculated to lead us safely through + life. Whoever has not sufficient power to + endure privations, and even suffering, can + never feel that he is armour-proof against + painful emotions; nay, he must attribute + to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness + of his nature, every disagreeable + feeling he may suffer.</p> + <p class="source">Von Humboldt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_539" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">539.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Petrarch</span> observes, that we change + language, habits, laws, customs, manners, + but not vices, not diseases, not the + symptoms of folly and madness—they are + still the same. And as a river, we see, + keeps the like name and place, but not + water, and yet ever runs, our times and + persons alter, vices are the same, and ever + be. Look how nightingales sang of old, + cocks crowed, kine lowed, sheep bleated, + sparrows chirped, dogs barked, so they do + still: we keep our madness still, play the + fool still; we are of the same humours and + inclinations as our predecessors were; you + shall find us all alike, much as one, we + and our sons, and so shall our posterity + continue to the last.</p> + <p class="source">Burton.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_540" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">540.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> mother of the useful arts is necessity, + that of the fine arts is luxury; for + <a class="pagenum" id="page117" title="117"></a>father the former have intellect, the latter, + genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.</p> + <p class="source">Schopenhauer.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_541-570"> + <div id="saying_541" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">541.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> fool who knows his foolishness is + wise so far, at least; but a fool who + thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed.</p> + <p class="source">Dhammapada.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_542" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">542.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">He</span> who mixes with unclean things becomes + unclean himself; he whose associations + are pure becomes purer each day.</p> + <p class="source">Talmud.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_543" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">543.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Heaven’s</span> gate is narrow and minute,*</p> + <p>It cannot be perceived by foolish men,</p> + <p>Blinded by vain illusions of the world.</p> + <p>E’en the clear-sighted, who discern the way</p> + <p>And seek to enter, find the portal barred</p> + <p>And hard to be unlocked. Its massive bolts</p> + <p>Are pride and passion, avarice and lust.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + <div id="footnote_29" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. Matt. <span class="bible_chapter">VII</span>, 14.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_544" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">544.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Eschew</span> that friend, if thou art wise, who + consorts with thy enemies.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_545" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">545.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Who</span> can tell</p> + <p>Men’s hearts? The purest comprehend</p> + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page118" title="118"></a>Such contradictions, and can blend</p> + <p>The force to bear, the power to feel,</p> + <p>The tender bud, the tempered steel.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Hindu Drama.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_546" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">546.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Whosoever</span> hath not knowledge, + and benevolence, and piety knoweth + nothing of reality, and dwelleth only in + semblance.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_547" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">547.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> thou shouldst find thy friend in the + wrong reprove him secretly, but in the + presence of company praise him.</p> + <p class="source">Arabic.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_548" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">548.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Modesty</span> is attended with profit, arrogance + brings on destruction.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_549" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">549.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> greatest hatred, like the greatest + virtue and the worst dogs, is quiet.</p> + <p class="source">Richter.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_550" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">550.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Is</span> a preface exquisitely written? No literary + morsel is more delicious. Is the + author inveterately dull? It is a kind of + preparatory information, which may be very + useful. It argues a deficiency of taste to + turn over an elaborate preface unread: for + it is the attar of the author’s roses, every + drop distilled at an immense cost. It is + <a class="pagenum" id="page119" title="119"></a>the reason of the reasoning, and the folly + of the foolish.</p> + <p class="source">Isaac D’Israeli.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_551" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">551.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Vulgar</span> prejudices are those which + arise out of accident, ignorance, or + authority; natural prejudices are those which + arise out of the constitution of the human + mind itself.</p> + <p class="source">Hazlitt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_552" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">552.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Lament</span> not Fortune’s mutability,</p> + <p>And seize her fickle favours ere they flee;</p> + <p class="i2">If others never mourned departed bliss,</p> + <p>How should a turn of Fortune come to thee?</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Omar Khayyām.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_553" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">553.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Harsh</span> reproof is like a violent storm, + soon washed down the channel; but + friendly admonitions, like a small shower, + pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.</p> + <p class="source">R. Chamberlain.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_554" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">554.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">There</span> are braying men in the world + as well as braying asses; for what’s + loud and senseless talking, huffing, and + swearing any other than a more fashionable + way of braying?</p> + <p class="source">L’Estrange.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_555" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">555.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">All</span> wit and fancy, like a diamond,</p> + <p>The more exact and curious ’tis ground,</p> + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page120" title="120"></a>Is forced for every carat to abate</p> + <p>As much of value as it wants in weight.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Butler.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_556" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">556.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Listen</span>, if you would learn; be silent, + if you would be safe.</p> + <p class="source">Arabic.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_557" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">557.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">All</span> such distinctions as tend to set + the orders of the state at a distance + from each other are equally subversive of + liberty and concord.</p> + <p class="source">Livy.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_558" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">558.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">No</span> man is the wiser for his learning. + It may administer matter to work in, + or objects to work upon, but wit and wisdom + are born with a man.</p> + <p class="source">Selden.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_559" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">559.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Those</span> who are guided by reason are + generally successful in their plans; + those who are rash and precipitate seldom + enjoy the favour of the gods.</p> + <p class="source">Herodotus.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_560" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">560.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Whosoever</span> lends a greedy ear to + a slanderous report is either himself + of a radically bad disposition or a mere + child in sense.</p> + <p class="source">Menander.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_561" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">561.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> foolish man in wealth and authority + is like a weak-timbered house with + a too-ponderous roof.</p> + <p class="source">R. Chamberlain.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_562" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page121" title="121"></a>562.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> lively blockhead in company is a + public benefit. Silence or dulness by + the side of folly looks like wisdom.</p> + <p class="source">Hazlitt.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_563" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">563.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Eminent</span> positions make eminent men + greater and little men less.</p> + <p class="source">La Bruyère.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_564" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">564.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Scratch</span> yourself with your own nails; + always do your own business, and when + you intend asking for a service, go to a + person who can appreciate your merit.</p> + <p class="source">Arabic.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_565" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">565.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> beauty of some women has days + and seasons, depending upon accidents + which diminish or increase it; nay, the very + passions of the mind naturally improve or + impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.</p> + <p class="source">Cervantes.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_566" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">566.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">No</span> joy in nature is so sublimely affecting + as the joy of a mother at the + good fortune of a child.</p> + <p class="source">Richter.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_567" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">567.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Want</span> and sorrow are the gifts which + folly earns for itself.</p> + <p class="source">Schubert.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_568" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page122" title="122"></a>568.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> character, in manners, in style, in all + things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.</p> + <p class="source">Longfellow.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_569" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">569.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Those</span> who cause dissensions in order + to injure other people are preparing + pitfalls for their own ruin.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_570" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">570.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Such</span> deeds as thou with fear and grief</p> + <p>Wouldst, on a sick-bed laid, recall,</p> + <p>In youth and health eschew them all,</p> + <p>Remembering life is frail and brief.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="sayings_571-589"> + <div id="saying_571" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">571.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> man should not keep company with + one whose character, family, and abode + are unknown.</p> + <p class="source">Panchatantra.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_572" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">572.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Sit</span> not down to the table before thy + stomach is empty, and rise before thou + hast filled it.</p> + <p class="source">Arabic.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_573" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">573.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">If</span> thou be rich, strive to command thy + money, lest it command thee.</p> + <p class="source">Quarles.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_574" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">574.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> all companies there are more fools than + wise men, and the greater part always + gets the better of the wiser.</p> + <p class="source">Rabelais.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_575" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page123" title="123"></a>575.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Talents</span> are best nurtured in solitude; + character is best formed in the stormy + billows of the world.</p> + <p class="source">Goethe.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_576" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">576.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">No</span> one ought to despond in adverse + circumstances, for they may turn out + to be the cause of good to us.*</p> + <p class="source">Menander.</p> + <div id="footnote_30" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. Job <span class="bible_chapter">V</span>, 17; Heb. <span class="bible_chapter">XII</span>, 6.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_577" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">577.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> constant man loses not his virtue + in misfortune. A torch may point + towards the ground, but its flame will still + point upwards.</p> + <p class="source">Bhartrihari.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_578" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">578.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> man should never despise himself, for + brilliant success never attends on the + man who is contemned by himself.</p> + <p class="source">Mahābhārata.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_579" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">579.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> is the character of a simpleton to be a + bore. A man of sense sees at once + whether he is welcome or tiresome; he + knows to withdraw the moment that precedes + that in which he would be in the least in + the way.</p> + <p class="source">La Bruyère.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_580" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">580.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> man of first rate excellence is virtuous + in spite of instruction; he of + <a class="pagenum" id="page124" title="124"></a>the middle class is so after instruction; + the lowest order of men are vicious in spite + of instruction.</p> + <p class="source">Chinese.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_581" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">581.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Not</span> to attend at the door of the wealthy, + and not to use the voice of petition—these + constitute the best life of a man.</p> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_582" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">582.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">What</span> a man can do and suffer is + unknown to himself till some occasion + presents itself which draws out the + hidden power. 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 itself, or how high + it is capable of rising; or as little as one + can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold + water.</p> + <p class="source">Schopenhauer.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_583" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">583.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Comprehensive</span> talkers are apt to + be tiresome when we are not athirst + for information; but, to be quite fair, we + must admit that superior reticence is a good + deal due to lack of matter. Speech is + often barren, but silence also does not + necessarily brood over a full nest. Your + still fowl, blinking at you without remark, + may all the while be sitting on one addled + nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, + <a class="pagenum" id="page125" title="125"></a>will have nothing to announce but that + addled delusion.</p> + <p class="source">George Eliot.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_584" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">584.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> sage who engages in controversy + with ignorant people must not expect + to be treated with honour; and if a fool + should overpower a philosopher by his + loquacity it is not to be wondered at, for + a common stone will break a jewel.</p> + <p class="source">Sa’dī.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_585" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">585.</h3> + <p><span class="first_word">Success</span> is like a lovely woman, wooed + by many men, but folded in the arms + of him alone who, free from over-zeal, + firmly persists and calmly perseveres.</p> + <p class="source">Bhāravi.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_586" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">586.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">A</span> feverish display of over-zeal,</p> + <p>At the first outset, is an obstacle</p> + <p>To all success; water, however cold,</p> + <p>Will penetrate the ground by slow degrees.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_587" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">587.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Treat</span> no one with disdain; with patience bear</p> + <p>Reviling language; with an angry man</p> + <p>Be never angry; blessings give for curses.*</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Manu.</p> + <div id="footnote_31" class="footnote"> + <p>* Cf. Matt. <span class="bible_chapter">V</span>, <span class="bible_chapter">II</span>, 44.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="saying_588" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number"><a class="pagenum" id="page126" title="126"></a>588.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">E’en</span> as a traveller, meeting with the shade</p> + <p>Of some o’erhanging tree, awhile reposes,</p> + <p>Then leaves its shelter to pursue his way,</p> + <p>So men meet friends, then part with them for ever.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Hitopadesa.</p> + </div> + <div id="saying_589" class="saying"> + <h3 class="saying_number">589.</h3> + <div class="poem"> + <p class="first_line"><span class="first_word">Single</span> is every living creature born,</p> + <p>Single he passes to another world,</p> + <p>Single he eats the fruit of evil deeds,</p> + <p>Single, the fruit of good; and when he leaves</p> + <p>His body, like a log or heap of clay,</p> + <p>Upon the ground, his kinsmen walk away:</p> + <p>Virtue alone stays by him at the tomb,</p> + <p>And bears him through the dreary, trackless gloom.</p> + </div> + <p class="source">Manu.</p> + </div> + </div> + <div id="index"> + <h2 class="section_title"><a class="pagenum" id="page127" title="127"></a>INDEX.</h2> + <ul id="index_a"> + <li>Abilities, <a href="#saying_17">17</a>.</li> + <li>Absent friend, <a href="#saying_496">496</a>.</li> + <li>Abuse of the great, <a href="#saying_398">398</a>.</li> + <li>Actions to be avoided, <a href="#saying_570">570</a>.</li> + <li>Actor, man an, <a href="#saying_37">37</a>.</li> + <li>Admonition, friendly, <a href="#saying_553">553</a>.</li> + <li>Advance step by step, <a href="#saying_131">131</a>.</li> + <li>Adversity, <a href="#saying_8">8</a>, <a href="#saying_30">30</a>, <a href="#saying_57">57</a>, <a href="#saying_78">78</a>, <a href="#saying_175">175</a>, <a href="#saying_184">184</a>, <a href="#saying_185">185</a>, <a href="#saying_330">330</a>, <a href="#saying_366">366</a>, <a href="#saying_393">393</a>, <a href="#saying_477">477</a>, <a href="#saying_576">576</a>, <a href="#saying_577">577</a>.</li> + <li>Advice, <a href="#saying_82">82</a>, <a href="#saying_172">172</a>, <a href="#saying_193">193</a>, <a href="#saying_443">443</a>.</li> + <li>Affectation, <a href="#saying_87">87</a>.</li> + <li>Age should be indulgent, <a href="#saying_464">464</a>.</li> + <li>Age, reverence for, <a href="#saying_484">484</a>.</li> + <li>Agreeableness, <a href="#saying_258">258</a>, <a href="#saying_296">296</a>.</li> + <li>Alms-giving, pride in, <a href="#saying_318">318</a>.</li> + <li>Ambition, petty, <a href="#saying_165">165</a>.</li> + <li>Amusements necessary, <a href="#saying_111">111</a>.</li> + <li>Ancestry, boast of, <a href="#saying_239">239</a>, <a href="#saying_240">240</a>, <a href="#saying_385">385</a>, <a href="#saying_395">395</a>, <a href="#saying_493">493</a>.</li> + <li>Angel, brute, man, <a href="#saying_199">199</a>.</li> + <li>Anger, <a href="#saying_117">117</a>, <a href="#saying_119">119</a>, <a href="#saying_130">130</a>.</li> + <li>Angry man, <a href="#saying_518">518</a>, <a href="#saying_587">587</a>.</li> + <li>Annoyances, <a href="#saying_387">387</a>.</li> + <li>Anxiety, needless, <a href="#saying_298">298</a>.</li> + <li>Apparel, <a href="#saying_418">418</a>.</li> + <li>Arrogance, <a href="#saying_267">267</a>.</li> + <li>Arts, mothers of the, <a href="#saying_540">540</a>.</li> + <li>Associates to be avoided, <a href="#saying_571">571</a>.</li> + <li>Associates, wicked, <a href="#saying_215">215</a>.</li> + <li>Associations, <a href="#saying_542">542</a>.</li> + <li>Attributes of hand, head, etc., <a href="#saying_513">513</a>.</li> + <li>Authority, <a href="#saying_151">151</a>, <a href="#saying_452">452</a>, <a href="#saying_561">561</a>.</li> + <li>Avarice, <a href="#saying_38">38</a>, <a href="#saying_310">310</a>, <a href="#saying_364">364</a>, <a href="#saying_382">382</a>, <a href="#saying_481">481</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_b"> + <li>Bad men, <a href="#saying_15">15</a>, <a href="#saying_351">351</a>.</li> + <li>Beauty, <a href="#saying_100">100</a>, <a href="#saying_179">179</a>, <a href="#saying_295">295</a>, <a href="#saying_565">565</a>.</li> + <li>Beginning, etc., <a href="#saying_383">383</a>.</li> + <li>Behaviour, <a href="#saying_430">430</a>.</li> + <li>Beloved, best, <a href="#saying_406">406</a>.</li> + <li>Beneficence, <a href="#saying_4">4</a>, <a href="#saying_5">5</a>, <a href="#saying_191">191</a>, <a href="#saying_485">485</a>.</li> + <li>Benefits, <a href="#saying_312">312</a>, <a href="#saying_345">345</a>.</li> + <li>“Bless those that curse you,” <a href="#saying_587">587</a>.</li> + <li>Blockhead in fine clothes, <a href="#saying_465">465</a>.</li> + <li>Blockhead, lively, <a href="#saying_562">562</a>.</li> + <li>Boastfulness, <a href="#saying_248">248</a>.</li> + <li>Bodily and mental qualities, <a href="#saying_204">204</a>.</li> + <li>Body, the soul’s tent, <a href="#saying_272">272</a>.</li> + <li>Books, <a href="#saying_96">96</a>, <a href="#saying_195">195</a>, <a href="#saying_196">196</a>, <a href="#saying_197">197</a>, <a href="#saying_252">252</a>, <a href="#saying_283">283</a>, <a href="#saying_550">550</a>.</li> + <li>Bores, <a href="#saying_579">579</a>.</li> + <li>Borrowing, <a href="#saying_429">429</a>.</li> + <li><a class="pagenum" id="page128" title="128"></a>Braying men, <a href="#saying_554">554</a>.</li> + <li>Business, do your own, <a href="#saying_564">564</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_c"> + <li>Calmness, <a href="#saying_361">361</a>.</li> + <li>Capacities of men, <a href="#saying_32">32</a>.</li> + <li>Caution in changing, <a href="#saying_131">131</a>.</li> + <li>Character, portraying, <a href="#saying_160">160</a>.</li> + <li>Character, test of men, <a href="#saying_109">109</a>.</li> + <li>Charity, <a href="#saying_94">94</a>.</li> + <li>Cheerfulness, <a href="#saying_302">302</a>, <a href="#saying_391">391</a>.</li> + <li>Children, <a href="#saying_379">379</a>.</li> + <li>Circumstances, <a href="#saying_67">67</a>.</li> + <li>Clever men, <a href="#saying_86">86</a>.</li> + <li>Companions, <a href="#saying_450">450</a>.</li> + <li>Conduct, best, <a href="#saying_214">214</a>.</li> + <li>Confidence, <a href="#saying_268">268</a>.</li> + <li>Consolation, <a href="#saying_346">346</a>.</li> + <li>Constancy of friends, <a href="#saying_366">366</a>.</li> + <li>Contemporaries’ approval, <a href="#saying_156">156</a>.</li> + <li>Contentment, <a href="#saying_10">10</a>, <a href="#saying_52">52</a>, <a href="#saying_101">101</a>, <a href="#saying_135">135</a>, <a href="#saying_334">334</a>, <a href="#saying_471">471</a>, <a href="#saying_538">538</a>.</li> + <li>Contrasts in life, <a href="#saying_502">502</a>.</li> + <li>Controversy with ignorant men, <a href="#saying_584">584</a>.</li> + <li>Conversation, <a href="#saying_71">71</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_d"> + <li>Daily cares and duties, <a href="#saying_503">503</a>.</li> + <li>Dangers reconcile foes, <a href="#saying_274">274</a>.</li> + <li>Death, <a href="#saying_26">26</a>, <a href="#saying_138">138</a>, <a href="#saying_461">461</a>.</li> + <li>Deception, <a href="#saying_243">243</a>.</li> + <li>Deeds and words, <a href="#saying_445">445</a>.</li> + <li>Delusions, <a href="#saying_441">441</a>.</li> + <li>Deportment, <a href="#saying_206">206</a>.</li> + <li>Derision of superiority, <a href="#saying_521">521</a>.</li> + <li>Designs, <a href="#saying_315">315</a>, <a href="#saying_405">405</a>, <a href="#saying_466">466</a>.</li> + <li>Difficulties, <a href="#saying_425">425</a>.</li> + <li>Diligence, <a href="#saying_189">189</a>, <a href="#saying_428">428</a>.</li> + <li>Discontent, <a href="#saying_222">222</a>, <a href="#saying_520">520</a>.</li> + <li>Distinctions, invidious, <a href="#saying_557">557</a>.</li> + <li>“Do unto others,” etc., <a href="#saying_372">372</a>.</li> + <li>Doctrine entering the ear only, <a href="#saying_285">285</a>.</li> + <li>Dog’s tail, <a href="#saying_373">373</a>.</li> + <li>Doubt, <a href="#saying_7">7</a>.</li> + <li>Dreams, <a href="#saying_388">388</a>, <a href="#saying_389">389</a>.</li> + <li>Dull minds, <a href="#saying_278">278</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_e"> + <li>Ears and tongue, <a href="#saying_273">273</a>.</li> + <li>Eat moderately, <a href="#saying_572">572</a>.</li> + <li>Education and morals, <a href="#saying_348">348</a>.</li> + <li>Eminence, <a href="#saying_563">563</a>.</li> + <li>Employment, want of, <a href="#saying_11">11</a>.</li> + <li>Empty things, <a href="#saying_410">410</a>.</li> + <li>Endurance, <a href="#saying_582">582</a>.</li> + <li>Energy, <a href="#saying_95">95</a>, <a href="#saying_149">149</a>.</li> + <li>Enjoyments, alloyed, <a href="#saying_352">352</a>, <a href="#saying_353">353</a>.</li> + <li>Envy, <a href="#saying_124">124</a>, <a href="#saying_168">168</a>, <a href="#saying_271">271</a>, <a href="#saying_343">343</a>, <a href="#saying_375">375</a>, <a href="#saying_525">525</a>.</li> + <li>Equality of men, <a href="#saying_234">234</a>.</li> + <li>Errors in judgment, <a href="#saying_64">64</a>.</li> + <li>Evil men reformed, <a href="#saying_68">68</a>.</li> + <li>Evil not to be returned, <a href="#saying_413">413</a>.</li> + <li>Evil plotters, <a href="#saying_162">162</a>, <a href="#saying_569">569</a>.</li> + <li>Evil speaking, <a href="#saying_321">321</a>.</li> + <li>Excellence and mediocrity, <a href="#saying_60">60</a>.</li> + <li>Exertion, <a href="#saying_134">134</a>, <a href="#saying_263">263</a>, <a href="#saying_468">468</a>, <a href="#saying_510">510</a>.</li> + <li>Expenditure, <a href="#saying_176">176</a>, <a href="#saying_247">247</a>, <a href="#saying_511">511</a>.</li> + <li>Experience, <a href="#saying_36">36</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_f"> + <li><a class="pagenum" id="page129" title="129"></a>Faculties of men limited, <a href="#saying_120">120</a>.</li> + <li>Faith not to be forced, <a href="#saying_408">408</a>.</li> + <li>Falsehood, <a href="#saying_341">341</a>.</li> + <li>Fame of good and evil deeds, <a href="#saying_277">277</a>.</li> + <li>Fame, worldly, <a href="#saying_34">34</a>, <a href="#saying_158">158</a>.</li> + <li>Familiarity with the great, <a href="#saying_255">255</a>.</li> + <li>Fancy, charm of, <a href="#saying_514">514</a>.</li> + <li>Fashions, old, despised, <a href="#saying_169">169</a>.</li> + <li>Fate and wishes, <a href="#saying_376">376</a>.</li> + <li>Fate and youth, <a href="#saying_122">122</a>.</li> + <li>Fathers and sons, <a href="#saying_519">519</a>.</li> + <li>Faults, <a href="#saying_20">20</a>, <a href="#saying_39">39</a>, <a href="#saying_41">41</a>, <a href="#saying_198">198</a>, <a href="#saying_219">219</a>, <a href="#saying_269">269</a>, <a href="#saying_347">347</a>.</li> + <li>Favours, conferring, <a href="#saying_317">317</a>.</li> + <li>Fear, <a href="#saying_339">339</a>.</li> + <li>Feeble characters, <a href="#saying_446">446</a>.</li> + <li>Feeling, sudden transitions of, <a href="#saying_127">127</a>.</li> + <li>Flattery, <a href="#saying_13">13</a>, <a href="#saying_250">250</a>, <a href="#saying_251">251</a>, <a href="#saying_323">323</a>, <a href="#saying_459">459</a>, <a href="#saying_528">528</a>.</li> + <li>Foes and friends, <a href="#saying_84">84</a>.</li> + <li>Foibles, men’s, <a href="#saying_322">322</a>.</li> + <li>Follies, <a href="#saying_97">97</a>.</li> + <li>Folly’s reward, <a href="#saying_567">567</a>.</li> + <li>Fools, <a href="#saying_108">108</a>, <a href="#saying_166">166</a>, <a href="#saying_181">181</a>, <a href="#saying_265">265</a>, <a href="#saying_415">415</a>, <a href="#saying_465">465</a>, <a href="#saying_541">541</a>, <a href="#saying_561">561</a>, <a href="#saying_574">574</a>.</li> + <li>Forgiveness, <a href="#saying_329">329</a>, <a href="#saying_344">344</a>.</li> + <li>Fortune, <a href="#saying_56">56</a>, <a href="#saying_173">173</a>, <a href="#saying_233">233</a>, <a href="#saying_249">249</a>, <a href="#saying_262">262</a>, <a href="#saying_276">276</a>, <a href="#saying_536">536</a>, <a href="#saying_552">552</a>.</li> + <li>Friends, <a href="#saying_16">16</a>, <a href="#saying_98">98</a>, <a href="#saying_174">174</a>, <a href="#saying_432">432</a>, <a href="#saying_458">458</a>, <a href="#saying_478">478</a>, <a href="#saying_496">496</a>, <a href="#saying_544">544</a>, <a href="#saying_547">547</a>, <a href="#saying_588">588</a>.</li> + <li>Friendship, <a href="#saying_24">24</a>, <a href="#saying_116">116</a>, <a href="#saying_309">309</a>, <a href="#saying_330">330</a>, <a href="#saying_346">346</a>, <a href="#saying_477">477</a>.</li> + <li>Frugality, <a href="#saying_316">316</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_g"><li>Generosity, <a href="#saying_140">140</a>.</li> + <li>Genius dull in society, <a href="#saying_534">534</a>.</li> + <li>Gifts, <a href="#saying_80">80</a>, <a href="#saying_456">456</a>, <a href="#saying_529">529</a>.</li> + <li>Giving, manner of, <a href="#saying_354">354</a>, <a href="#saying_483">483</a>.</li> + <li>God, the best friend, <a href="#saying_79">79</a>.</li> + <li>Gold beautifies, <a href="#saying_422">422</a>, <a href="#saying_427">427</a>.</li> + <li>Golden mean, <a href="#saying_21">21</a>.</li> + <li>Good, doing, <a href="#saying_110">110</a>, <a href="#saying_136">136</a>, <a href="#saying_137">137</a>, <a href="#saying_145">145</a>, <a href="#saying_209">209</a>.</li> + <li>Good for evil, <a href="#saying_25">25</a>, <a href="#saying_311">311</a>.</li> + <li>Good and bad men falling, <a href="#saying_297">297</a>.</li> + <li>Good man, <a href="#saying_15">15</a>, <a href="#saying_288">288</a>.</li> + <li>Good man’s intellect, <a href="#saying_89">89</a>.</li> + <li>Good name, <a href="#saying_29">29</a>, <a href="#saying_289">289</a>.</li> + <li>Goodness, <a href="#saying_73">73</a>, <a href="#saying_153">153</a>, <a href="#saying_238">238</a>.</li> + <li>Good son, <a href="#saying_16">16</a>.</li> + <li>Good wife, <a href="#saying_16">16</a>.</li> + <li>Good words, <a href="#saying_457">457</a>.</li> + <li>Good work undone, <a href="#saying_35">35</a>.</li> + <li>Gratitude, <a href="#saying_317">317</a>.</li> + <li>Great men, intercourse with, <a href="#saying_177">177</a>.</li> + <li>Great souls, qualities of, <a href="#saying_78">78</a>.</li> + <li>Greed, <a href="#saying_447">447</a>.</li> + <li>Grief, useless, <a href="#saying_207">207</a>, <a href="#saying_324">324</a>.</li> + <li>Griefs, secret, <a href="#saying_300">300</a>, <a href="#saying_378">378</a>, <a href="#saying_394">394</a>.</li> + <li>Grossness, <a href="#saying_303">303</a>.</li> + <li>Guilty men, <a href="#saying_386">386</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_h"><li>Handicraft, <a href="#saying_451">451</a>.</li> + <li>Happiness, <a href="#saying_58">58</a>, <a href="#saying_66">66</a>, <a href="#saying_70">70</a>, <a href="#saying_187">187</a>, <a href="#saying_253">253</a>, <a href="#saying_262">262</a>, <a href="#saying_311">311</a>, <a href="#saying_337">337</a>, <a href="#saying_363">363</a>, <a href="#saying_367">367</a>, <a href="#saying_406">406</a>, <a href="#saying_523">523</a>.</li> + <li>Harsh words, <a href="#saying_192">192</a>.</li> + <li>Hatred, <a href="#saying_123">123</a>, <a href="#saying_447">447</a>, <a href="#saying_549">549</a>.</li> + <li>Health, <a href="#saying_52">52</a>.</li> + <li><a class="pagenum" id="page130" title="130"></a>Heart, <a href="#saying_62">62</a>, <a href="#saying_79">79</a>, <a href="#saying_129">129</a>, <a href="#saying_132">132</a>, <a href="#saying_545">545</a>.</li> + <li>Hearts and beauty, <a href="#saying_179">179</a>.</li> + <li>Heaven’s gate, <a href="#saying_543">543</a>.</li> + <li>Hero, <a href="#saying_406">406</a>.</li> + <li>Hoary head, <a href="#saying_416">416</a>.</li> + <li>Home, <a href="#saying_253">253</a>, <a href="#saying_406">406</a>, <a href="#saying_523">523</a>.</li> + <li>Humility, <a href="#saying_150">150</a>, <a href="#saying_157">157</a>.</li> + <li>Husband, <a href="#saying_161">161</a>, <a href="#saying_401">401</a>, <a href="#saying_490">490</a>.</li> + <li>Hypocrisy, <a href="#saying_403">403</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_i"> + <li>Idleness, <a href="#saying_424">424</a>.</li> + <li>Ignorance, <a href="#saying_103">103</a>, <a href="#saying_198">198</a>, <a href="#saying_199">199</a>, <a href="#saying_290">290</a>, <a href="#saying_301">301</a>, <a href="#saying_355">355</a>, <a href="#saying_431">431</a>.</li> + <li>Imitativeness, <a href="#saying_404">404</a>.</li> + <li>Impudence, <a href="#saying_374">374</a>.</li> + <li>Increase, by degrees, <a href="#saying_460">460</a>.</li> + <li>Independence, <a href="#saying_581">581</a>.</li> + <li>Indiscreet men, <a href="#saying_85">85</a>.</li> + <li>Inherent badness, <a href="#saying_373">373</a>.</li> + <li>Injury rebounds, <a href="#saying_126">126</a>.</li> + <li>Injury unjustifiable, <a href="#saying_407">407</a>, <a href="#saying_413">413</a>.</li> + <li>Insignificance, man’s individual, <a href="#saying_308">308</a>.</li> + <li>Instruction, <a href="#saying_580">580</a>.</li> + <li>Irresolution, <a href="#saying_294">294</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_j"> + <li>Judge things by their merit, <a href="#saying_196">196</a>.</li> + <li>Judgments, how formed, <a href="#saying_259">259</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_k"> + <li>Kindness, <a href="#saying_4">4</a>, <a href="#saying_5">5</a>, <a href="#saying_54">54</a>, <a href="#saying_92">92</a>, <a href="#saying_129">129</a>, <a href="#saying_305">305</a>, <a href="#saying_306">306</a>, <a href="#saying_311">311</a>, <a href="#saying_344">344</a>.</li> + <li>Kinsmen and strangers, <a href="#saying_91">91</a>.</li> + <li>Knowledge, <a href="#saying_3">3</a>, <a href="#saying_7">7</a>, <a href="#saying_43">43</a>, <a href="#saying_55">55</a>, <a href="#saying_201">201</a>, <a href="#saying_205">205</a>, <a href="#saying_218">218</a>, <a href="#saying_225">225</a>, <a href="#saying_286">286</a>, <a href="#saying_307">307</a>, <a href="#saying_355">355</a>, <a href="#saying_396">396</a>, <a href="#saying_397">397</a>, <a href="#saying_416">416</a>, <a href="#saying_454">454</a>, <a href="#saying_508">508</a>, <a href="#saying_546">546</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_l"> + <li>Labour, <a href="#saying_275">275</a>, <a href="#saying_429">429</a>, <a href="#saying_453">453</a>, <a href="#saying_506">506</a>.</li> + <li>Laughter, <a href="#saying_47">47</a>, <a href="#saying_163">163</a>, <a href="#saying_186">186</a>.</li> + <li>Law, <a href="#saying_463">463</a>.</li> + <li>Law and physic, <a href="#saying_167">167</a>.</li> + <li>Learning, <a href="#saying_40">40</a>, <a href="#saying_43">43</a>, <a href="#saying_143">143</a>, <a href="#saying_342">342</a>, <a href="#saying_449">449</a>, <a href="#saying_479">479</a>, <a href="#saying_491">491</a>, <a href="#saying_504">504</a>, <a href="#saying_509">509</a>.</li> + <li>Liars, <a href="#saying_246">246</a>.</li> + <li>Liberality, <a href="#saying_93">93</a>, <a href="#saying_94">94</a>, <a href="#saying_140">140</a>, <a href="#saying_241">241</a>, <a href="#saying_449">449</a>, <a href="#saying_498">498</a>.</li> + <li>Life, <a href="#saying_23">23</a>, <a href="#saying_83">83</a>, <a href="#saying_125">125</a>, <a href="#saying_133">133</a>, <a href="#saying_144">144</a>, <a href="#saying_235">235</a>, <a href="#saying_287">287</a>, <a href="#saying_326">326</a>, <a href="#saying_365">365</a>, <a href="#saying_461">461</a>, <a href="#saying_502">502</a>, <a href="#saying_535">535</a>, <a href="#saying_539">539</a>.</li> + <li>Loquacity, <a href="#saying_182">182</a>, <a href="#saying_301">301</a>, <a href="#saying_359">359</a>, <a href="#saying_583">583</a>.</li> + <li>Loss, greatest, <a href="#saying_406">406</a>.</li> + <li>Losses half felt, <a href="#saying_216">216</a>.</li> + <li>Love, <a href="#saying_314">314</a>.</li> + <li>Low-minded men, <a href="#saying_485">485</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_m"> + <li>Man, an actor, <a href="#saying_37">37</a>.</li> + <li>Man an intellectual animal, <a href="#saying_128">128</a>.</li> + <li>Mankind, knowledge of, <a href="#saying_369">369</a>.</li> + <li>“Many cooks,” etc., <a href="#saying_437">437</a>.</li> + <li>Marriage, <a href="#saying_333">333</a>.</li> + <li>Mean, the golden, <a href="#saying_21">21</a>.</li> + <li>Mediocrity and excellence, <a href="#saying_60">60</a>.</li> + <li>Memory, <a href="#saying_414">414</a>.</li> + <li>Men, difficult to know, <a href="#saying_33">33</a>.</li> + <li>Men like ships, <a href="#saying_409">409</a>.</li> + <li>Mental faculties, limited, <a href="#saying_120">120</a>.</li> + <li>Mental offspring, <a href="#saying_417">417</a>.</li> + <li>Mental and bodily qualifications, <a href="#saying_204">204</a>.</li> + <li>Merit, innate, <a href="#saying_433">433</a>.</li> + <li>Merit, true and false, <a href="#saying_242">242</a>.</li> + <li>Merit without praise, <a href="#saying_104">104</a>.</li> + <li><a class="pagenum" id="page131" title="131"></a>Middling fortune, <a href="#saying_536">536</a>.</li> + <li>Mind, <a href="#saying_115">115</a>, <a href="#saying_226">226</a>, <a href="#saying_229">229</a>, <a href="#saying_270">270</a>, <a href="#saying_279">279</a>.</li> + <li>Misanthropy, <a href="#saying_336">336</a>.</li> + <li>Miser, <a href="#saying_481">481</a>.</li> + <li>Misery, <a href="#saying_357">357</a>.</li> + <li>Mistakes, <a href="#saying_72">72</a>.</li> + <li>Modesty, <a href="#saying_159">159</a>, <a href="#saying_282">282</a>, <a href="#saying_436">436</a>, <a href="#saying_522">522</a>, <a href="#saying_548">548</a>.</li> + <li>Money, <a href="#saying_188">188</a>, <a href="#saying_190">190</a>, <a href="#saying_368">368</a>, <a href="#saying_573">573</a>.</li> + <li>Mothers’ greatest joy, <a href="#saying_566">566</a>.</li> + <li>Morning, lesson of the, <a href="#saying_139">139</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_n"> + <li>Nature praises the Creator, <a href="#saying_512">512</a>.</li> + <li>Neighbour, every man one’s, <a href="#saying_442">442</a>.</li> + <li>Neighbours and companions, <a href="#saying_450">450</a>.</li> + <li>Night, silence of, <a href="#saying_266">266</a>.</li> + <li>Noble birth, <a href="#saying_434">434</a>.</li> + <li>Noble-minded men, <a href="#saying_485">485</a>.</li> + <li>Novel-reading, <a href="#saying_475">475</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_o"> + <li>Obliging others, <a href="#saying_426">426</a>.</li> + <li>Old age, <a href="#saying_439">439</a>, <a href="#saying_484">484</a>.</li> + <li>Old and new things, <a href="#saying_196">196</a>.</li> + <li>Old man, <a href="#saying_65">65</a>.</li> + <li>Opportunities, <a href="#saying_185">185</a>, <a href="#saying_420">420</a>.</li> + <li>Oppression, <a href="#saying_191">191</a>.</li> + <li>Origin, one common, <a href="#saying_9">9</a>.</li> + <li>Outward perfection, <a href="#saying_499">499</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_p"> + <li>Parents’ affection, <a href="#saying_154">154</a>.</li> + <li>Parsimony, <a href="#saying_316">316</a>.</li> + <li>Passionate man, <a href="#saying_74">74</a>.</li> + <li>Passions, <a href="#saying_1">1</a>, <a href="#saying_2">2</a>, <a href="#saying_119">119</a>, <a href="#saying_280">280</a>, <a href="#saying_447">447</a>.</li> + <li>Past, present and future, <a href="#saying_326">326</a>.</li> + <li>Patience, <a href="#saying_42">42</a>, <a href="#saying_118">118</a>, <a href="#saying_135">135</a>, <a href="#saying_185">185</a>, <a href="#saying_207">207</a>, <a href="#saying_476">476</a>.</li> + <li>Peace, greatest, <a href="#saying_406">406</a>.</li> + <li>Personal troubles, <a href="#saying_31">31</a>.</li> + <li>Personation, <a href="#saying_102">102</a>.</li> + <li>Physic and law, <a href="#saying_167">167</a>.</li> + <li>“Physician, heal thyself,” <a href="#saying_421">421</a>.</li> + <li>Pity, <a href="#saying_124">124</a>.</li> + <li>Place, things out of, <a href="#saying_237">237</a>.</li> + <li>Plagiarism, <a href="#saying_96">96</a>.</li> + <li>Plans, miscarried, <a href="#saying_327">327</a>.</li> + <li>Pleasure, <a href="#saying_337">337</a>.</li> + <li>Pleasure and pain, <a href="#saying_353">353</a>.</li> + <li>Pleasure in others’ welfare, <a href="#saying_350">350</a>.</li> + <li>Poesy, <a href="#saying_260">260</a>.</li> + <li>Poetaster, <a href="#saying_217">217</a>.</li> + <li>Potter and clay, <a href="#saying_377">377</a>.</li> + <li>Popular opinion, <a href="#saying_76">76</a>.</li> + <li>Poverty, <a href="#saying_44">44</a>, <a href="#saying_105">105</a>, <a href="#saying_121">121</a>, <a href="#saying_208">208</a>, <a href="#saying_245">245</a>, <a href="#saying_410">410</a>, <a href="#saying_422">422</a>, <a href="#saying_472">472</a>.</li> + <li>Praise and censure, <a href="#saying_88">88</a>, <a href="#saying_104">104</a>, <a href="#saying_500">500</a>, <a href="#saying_501">501</a>.</li> + <li>Praise, how to merit, <a href="#saying_130">130</a>.</li> + <li>Prayer, universal, <a href="#saying_19">19</a>.</li> + <li>Prefaces to books, <a href="#saying_550">550</a>.</li> + <li>Prejudices, <a href="#saying_551">551</a>.</li> + <li>Premature actions, <a href="#saying_264">264</a>.</li> + <li>Premature death, <a href="#saying_122">122</a>.</li> + <li>Present affairs, <a href="#saying_462">462</a>.</li> + <li>Present good despised, <a href="#saying_213">213</a>.</li> + <li>Presents, <a href="#saying_80">80</a>, <a href="#saying_456">456</a>, <a href="#saying_529">529</a>.</li> + <li>Pretence, <a href="#saying_102">102</a>.</li> + <li>Pride, <a href="#saying_107">107</a>, <a href="#saying_157">157</a>, <a href="#saying_159">159</a>, <a href="#saying_291">291</a>, <a href="#saying_338">338</a>, <a href="#saying_492">492</a>, <a href="#saying_497">497</a>.</li> + <li>Pride in religious works, <a href="#saying_318">318</a>.</li> + <li>Profitable thing, <a href="#saying_406">406</a>.</li> + <li><a class="pagenum" id="page132" title="132"></a>Progress, <a href="#saying_487">487</a>.</li> + <li>Projects, <a href="#saying_315">315</a>, <a href="#saying_405">405</a>, <a href="#saying_466">466</a>.</li> + <li>Promises, broken, <a href="#saying_28">28</a>.</li> + <li>Prosperity, <a href="#saying_10">10</a>, <a href="#saying_30">30</a>, <a href="#saying_56">56</a>, <a href="#saying_93">93</a>, <a href="#saying_175">175</a>, <a href="#saying_224">224</a>, <a href="#saying_350">350</a>, <a href="#saying_393">393</a>, <a href="#saying_477">477</a>.</li> + <li>Providence, <a href="#saying_320">320</a>.</li> + <li>Purpose without power, <a href="#saying_146">146</a>.</li> + <li>Pursuits, <a href="#saying_203">203</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_r"> + <li>Rabble among gentry, <a href="#saying_358">358</a>.</li> + <li>Rashness, <a href="#saying_473">473</a>, <a href="#saying_559">559</a>.</li> + <li>Reality, <a href="#saying_546">546</a>.</li> + <li>Reason, <a href="#saying_14">14</a>, <a href="#saying_299">299</a>, <a href="#saying_559">559</a>.</li> + <li>Reckless life reformed, <a href="#saying_68">68</a>.</li> + <li>Regrets, useless, <a href="#saying_298">298</a>, <a href="#saying_486">486</a>.</li> + <li>Remorse, <a href="#saying_220">220</a>.</li> + <li>Reprehension, <a href="#saying_75">75</a>.</li> + <li>Reproof, harsh, <a href="#saying_553">553</a>.</li> + <li>Resignation, <a href="#saying_538">538</a>.</li> + <li>Resolution, <a href="#saying_12">12</a>, <a href="#saying_263">263</a>.</li> + <li>Respect, hatred, pity, <a href="#saying_123">123</a>.</li> + <li>Restraint, <a href="#saying_141">141</a>.</li> + <li>Reticence, <a href="#saying_18">18</a>, <a href="#saying_586">586</a>.</li> + <li>Reviling to be borne, <a href="#saying_587">587</a>.</li> + <li>Riches, <a href="#saying_148">148</a>, <a href="#saying_187">187</a>, <a href="#saying_210">210</a>, <a href="#saying_281">281</a>, <a href="#saying_400">400</a>, <a href="#saying_401">401</a>, <a href="#saying_470">470</a>, <a href="#saying_471">471</a>, <a href="#saying_536">536</a>.</li> + <li>Ridiculous, cause of the, <a href="#saying_292">292</a>.</li> + <li>Righteousness, <a href="#saying_443">443</a>.</li> + <li>Romances, <a href="#saying_419">419</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_s"> + <li>Salvation, <a href="#saying_257">257</a>.</li> + <li>Sea-margins of thought, <a href="#saying_516">516</a>.</li> + <li>Secrets, <a href="#saying_99">99</a>, <a href="#saying_221">221</a>, <a href="#saying_288">288</a>, <a href="#saying_489">489</a>, <a href="#saying_505">505</a>.</li> + <li>Seeming to be more than one is, <a href="#saying_390">390</a>.</li> + <li>Self-conceit, <a href="#saying_112">112</a>.</li> + <li>Self-conquest, <a href="#saying_223">223</a>.</li> + <li>Self-contemning, <a href="#saying_578">578</a>.</li> + <li>Self-control, <a href="#saying_280">280</a>.</li> + <li>Self-depreciation, <a href="#saying_282">282</a>.</li> + <li>Self-dissatisfaction, <a href="#saying_46">46</a>.</li> + <li>Self-judging, <a href="#saying_524">524</a>.</li> + <li>Self-knowledge, <a href="#saying_152">152</a>, <a href="#saying_261">261</a>.</li> + <li>Self-love, <a href="#saying_142">142</a>, <a href="#saying_370">370</a>.</li> + <li>Self-palliation, <a href="#saying_467">467</a>.</li> + <li>Self-praises, <a href="#saying_412">412</a>.</li> + <li>Self-reliance, <a href="#saying_115">115</a>.</li> + <li>Self-seeking men, <a href="#saying_338">338</a>.</li> + <li>Self-valuation, <a href="#saying_328">328</a>.</li> + <li>Sensuality, <a href="#saying_423">423</a>.</li> + <li>Serve from lowest station upwards, <a href="#saying_335">335</a>.</li> + <li>Shadows of the mind, <a href="#saying_226">226</a>.</li> + <li>Shame, <a href="#saying_90">90</a>, <a href="#saying_256">256</a>, <a href="#saying_374">374</a>.</li> + <li>Silence, <a href="#saying_22">22</a>, <a href="#saying_180">180</a>, <a href="#saying_244">244</a>, <a href="#saying_254">254</a>, <a href="#saying_438">438</a>, <a href="#saying_444">444</a>, <a href="#saying_465">465</a>, <a href="#saying_474">474</a>, <a href="#saying_556">556</a>.</li> + <li>Simpletons, bores, <a href="#saying_579">579</a>.</li> + <li>Simplicity, <a href="#saying_435">435</a>, <a href="#saying_488">488</a>, <a href="#saying_568">568</a>.</li> + <li>Sin, repeated, <a href="#saying_170">170</a>, <a href="#saying_448">448</a>.</li> + <li>Single are we born, etc., <a href="#saying_589">589</a>.</li> + <li>Slander, <a href="#saying_69">69</a>, <a href="#saying_412">412</a>, <a href="#saying_560">560</a>.</li> + <li>Smatterers, <a href="#saying_384">384</a>.</li> + <li>Society, <a href="#saying_27">27</a>, <a href="#saying_258">258</a>, <a href="#saying_537">537</a>.</li> + <li>Son, good, <a href="#saying_16">16</a>.</li> + <li>Sorrows, <a href="#saying_6">6</a>, <a href="#saying_50">50</a>, <a href="#saying_61">61</a>, <a href="#saying_185">185</a>, <a href="#saying_381">381</a>.</li> + <li>Sparing and spending, <a href="#saying_511">511</a>.</li> + <li>Speech, <a href="#saying_180">180</a>, <a href="#saying_254">254</a>, <a href="#saying_438">438</a>, <a href="#saying_474">474</a>.</li> + <li>Strangers and kinsmen, <a href="#saying_91">91</a>.</li> + <li>Stupidity, <a href="#saying_515">515</a>.</li> + <li>Style in writing, <a href="#saying_284">284</a>.</li> + <li>Subtle and dull minds, <a href="#saying_278">278</a>.</li> + <li><a class="pagenum" id="page133" title="133"></a>Subtle-witted men, <a href="#saying_278">278</a>.</li> + <li>Success, <a href="#saying_149">149</a>, <a href="#saying_183">183</a>, <a href="#saying_578">578</a>, <a href="#saying_583">583</a>.</li> + <li>Successes, unexpected, <a href="#saying_53">53</a>.</li> + <li>Suffering, <a href="#saying_147">147</a>.</li> + <li>Superiority, <a href="#saying_57">57</a>, <a href="#saying_527">527</a>.</li> + <li>Superstition, <a href="#saying_356">356</a>.</li> + <li>Sweep your own doorstep, <a href="#saying_507">507</a>.</li> + <li>Sympathy, <a href="#saying_371">371</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_t"> + <li>Taciturnity, <a href="#saying_244">244</a>, <a href="#saying_526">526</a>, <a href="#saying_583">583</a>.</li> + <li>Talents and character, <a href="#saying_576">576</a>.</li> + <li>Talkativeness, <a href="#saying_182">182</a>, <a href="#saying_301">301</a>, <a href="#saying_359">359</a>, <a href="#saying_583">583</a>.</li> + <li>Temperance, <a href="#saying_380">380</a>.</li> + <li>Temptation, <a href="#saying_106">106</a>.</li> + <li>Things good and bad, <a href="#saying_59">59</a>.</li> + <li>Things long desired, <a href="#saying_392">392</a>.</li> + <li>Things to be guarded against, <a href="#saying_155">155</a>.</li> + <li>Things universally valued, <a href="#saying_399">399</a>.</li> + <li>Think before speaking, <a href="#saying_474">474</a>.</li> + <li>Thorns and roses, <a href="#saying_331">331</a>.</li> + <li>Thought, <a href="#saying_114">114</a>, <a href="#saying_402">402</a>, <a href="#saying_516">516</a>.</li> + <li>Time, <a href="#saying_79">79</a>, <a href="#saying_113">113</a>, <a href="#saying_325">325</a>, <a href="#saying_360">360</a>.</li> + <li>Titles of books, <a href="#saying_283">283</a>.</li> + <li>To-day and to-morrow, <a href="#saying_530">530</a>, <a href="#saying_531">531</a>.</li> + <li>Toil and pleasure, <a href="#saying_349">349</a>.</li> + <li>Tongue and ears, <a href="#saying_273">273</a>.</li> + <li>Trials, <a href="#saying_51">51</a>.</li> + <li>Troubles, <a href="#saying_202">202</a>.</li> + <li>Truth, lovers of, <a href="#saying_246">246</a>.</li> + <li>Truth and severity, <a href="#saying_332">332</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_u"> + <li>Undertakings of the careless, <a href="#saying_313">313</a>.</li> + <li>Universe, lessons of the, <a href="#saying_48">48</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_v"> + <li>Vacant mind, <a href="#saying_229">229</a>.</li> + <li>Valour, <a href="#saying_449">449</a>.</li> + <li>Vanity, cure of, <a href="#saying_494">494</a>.</li> + <li>Vaticination, <a href="#saying_462">462</a>.</li> + <li>Vices, <a href="#saying_304">304</a>, <a href="#saying_340">340</a>.</li> + <li>Vicissitudes, <a href="#saying_584">584</a>.</li> + <li>Virtue, <a href="#saying_532">532</a>, <a href="#saying_589">589</a>.</li> + <li>Vociferation, <a href="#saying_361">361</a>.</li> + <li>Voice, the human, <a href="#saying_455">455</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_w"> + <li>Weak and strong men, <a href="#saying_236">236</a>.</li> + <li>Wealth, <a href="#saying_77">77</a>, <a href="#saying_115">115</a>, <a href="#saying_148">148</a>, <a href="#saying_187">187</a>, <a href="#saying_210">210</a>, <a href="#saying_267">267</a>, <a href="#saying_400">400</a>, <a href="#saying_440">440</a>, <a href="#saying_449">449</a>.</li> + <li>Wicked associates, <a href="#saying_215">215</a>.</li> + <li>Wicked, unstable, <a href="#saying_411">411</a>.</li> + <li>Wickedness, odious in the learned, <a href="#saying_469">469</a>.</li> + <li>Wife, <a href="#saying_16">16</a>, <a href="#saying_161">161</a>, <a href="#saying_194">194</a>, <a href="#saying_200">200</a>, <a href="#saying_231">231</a>, <a href="#saying_232">232</a>, <a href="#saying_401">401</a>, <a href="#saying_406">406</a>.</li> + <li>Wisdom, <a href="#saying_171">171</a>, <a href="#saying_482">482</a>, <a href="#saying_584">584</a>.</li> + <li>Wise men, <a href="#saying_131">131</a>, <a href="#saying_227">227</a>, <a href="#saying_265">265</a>, <a href="#saying_533">533</a>, <a href="#saying_584">584</a>.</li> + <li>Wish, father to the thought, <a href="#saying_212">212</a>.</li> + <li>Wishes, vain, <a href="#saying_486">486</a>.</li> + <li>Wishes and powers, <a href="#saying_293">293</a>.</li> + <li>Wit and fancy, <a href="#saying_555">555</a>.</li> + <li>Wit and wisdom, <a href="#saying_362">362</a>, <a href="#saying_558">558</a>.</li> + <li>Woman, <a href="#saying_45">45</a>, <a href="#saying_164">164</a>, <a href="#saying_178">178</a>, <a href="#saying_230">230</a>, <a href="#saying_495">495</a>, <a href="#saying_509">509</a>, <a href="#saying_517">517</a>.</li> + <li>Words cannot be recalled, <a href="#saying_228">228</a>.</li> + <li>Words, harsh, <a href="#saying_192">192</a>.</li> + <li>Words without deeds, <a href="#saying_211">211</a>.</li> + <li>World, a beautiful book, <a href="#saying_49">49</a>.</li> + <li>Worldly fame and pleasure, <a href="#saying_34">34</a>, <a href="#saying_158">158</a>.</li> + <li><a class="pagenum" id="page134" title="134"></a>Worst thing, <a href="#saying_406">406</a>.</li> + <li>Wretched not to be mocked, <a href="#saying_63">63</a>.</li> + <li>Writings, like dishes, books, like beauty, <a href="#saying_96">96</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_y"> + <li>Years, early, misspent, <a href="#saying_480">480</a>.</li> + <li>Youth, negligence in, <a href="#saying_81">81</a>.</li> + <li>Youth returns not, <a href="#saying_319">319</a>.</li> + </ul> + <ul id="index_z"> + <li>Zeal, excessive, <a href="#saying_586">586</a>.</li> + </ul> + </div> + <div id="transcriber_note"> + <h3 class="note_title">Transcriber’s Notes</h3> + <p class="regular_paragraph">Items changed in the text are noted by <span class="errata">dotted underline</span>.</p> + <ul id="errata"> + <li>Item <a href="#saying_54">54</a>: Mahhābhārata <em>changed to</em> Mahābhārata</li> + <li>Item <a href="#saying_92">92</a>: Mahābāhrata <em>changed to</em> Mahābhārata</li> + <li>Item <a href="#saying_115">115</a>: Depend not an <em>changed to</em> Depend not on</li> + <li>Item <a href="#saying_306">306</a>: Chandalas’ <em>changed to</em> Chándálas’</li> + <li>Item <a href="#saying_434">434</a>: Goldini <em>changed to</em> Goldoni</li> + </ul> + </div> + <div id="the_end"> </div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Book of Wise Sayings, by W. 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