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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Book of Wise Sayings, by W. A. Clouston
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+Title: Book of Wise Sayings
+ Selected Largely from Eastern Sources
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+Author: W. A. Clouston
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+Release Date: April 18, 2007 [EBook #21130]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BOOK OF WISE SAYINGS ***
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+ BOOK OF
+
+ WISE SAYINGS
+
+ _SELECTED LARGELY FROM EASTERN SOURCES_
+
+ BY
+
+ W. A. CLOUSTON
+
+ _Author of "Popular Tales and Fictions," "Literary
+ Coincidences, and other Papers," "Flowers
+ from a Persian Garden," etc._
+
+
+
+ "Concise sentences, like darts, fly abroad and make
+ impressions, while long discourses are tedious and not
+ regarded."--BACON.
+
+ "Many are the sayings of the wise,
+ In ancient and in modern books enrolled."--MILTON.
+
+
+
+ LONDON
+ PUBLISHED BY HUTCHINSON & CO.
+
+ AT 34 PATERNOSTER ROW
+ 1893
+
+
+
+
+ PRINTED AT NIMEGUEN (HOLLAND)
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+ MITCHELL LIBRARY, GLASGOW,
+
+ THIS LITTLE BOOK,
+
+ WITH FRIENDLY GREETINGS,
+
+ IS INSCRIBED.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+Cynics 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 _downwards_? 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?
+
+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. 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.
+
+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 prosperity; and thus, like the immortal Sir
+Hudibras, when "in doleful dumps", we may "cheer ourselves with ends
+of verse, and sayings of philosophers."
+
+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 _Mahabharata_ and
+the _Ramayana_; the _Panchatantra_ and the _Hitopadesa_, two
+Sanskrit versions of the famous collection of apologues known in
+Europe as the Fables of Bidpai, or Pilpay; the _Dharma-sastra_ of
+Manu; Bharavi, Magha, Bhartrihari, and other Hindu poets. Specimens
+of the mild teachings of Buddha and his more notable followers are
+taken from the _Dhammapada_ (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, Firdausi,
+Sa'di, Hafiz, Nizami, Omar Khayyam, Jami); while the proverbial
+wisdom of the Chinese and the didactic writings of the sages of
+Burmah are also occasionally cited.
+
+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.
+
+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, (_e.g._,
+_Counsels from my Lord Bacon_, 1892), and must be familiar to what is
+termed "the average general reader." _The Enchiridion_ of Frances
+Quarles and the _Resolves_ 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 _Nocturnal Lucubrations_) I have deemed worthy of
+reproduction.
+
+In more modern times, with the sole exception of William Hazlitt,
+our country has produced no very successful writer of aphorisms.
+Colton's _Lacon; or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those
+who Think_, 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
+_Theophrastus Such_: "the most insufferable of all deadly-lively
+prosing in our sublunary world." However this may be, assuredly
+other works of the author of _Adam Bede_ will be found to furnish
+many examples of admirable apothegms.
+
+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 facetiae, I have confined my selection of
+"sayings of the wise" within the limits of a pocket-volume.
+
+ W. A. C.
+
+
+
+
+BOOK OF WISE SAYINGS.
+
+
+1.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Bharavi._
+
+
+2.
+
+If passion gaineth the mastery over reason, the wise will not count
+thee amongst men.
+
+ _Firdausi._
+
+
+3.
+
+Knowledge is destroyed by associating with the base; with equals
+equality is gained, and with the distinguished, distinction.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+4.
+
+Dost thou desire that thine own heart should not suffer, redeem thou
+the sufferer from the bonds of misery.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+5.
+
+To friends and eke to foes true kindness show;
+No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do;
+ Harshness will alienate a bosom friend.
+And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.
+
+ _Omar Khayyam._
+
+
+6.
+
+There is no greater grief in misery than to turn our thoughts back
+to happier times.[1]
+
+ _Dante._
+
+ [1] Cf. Goldsmith:
+
+ O Memory! thou fond deceiver,
+ Still importunate and vain;
+ To former joys recurring ever,
+ And turning all the past to pain.
+
+
+7.
+
+We in reality only know when we doubt a little. With knowledge comes
+doubt.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+8.
+
+In the hour of adversity be not without hope, for crystal rain falls
+from black clouds.
+
+ _Nizami._
+
+
+9.
+
+One common origin unites us all, but every sort of wood does not
+give the perfume of the lignum aloes.
+
+ _Arabic._
+
+
+10.
+
+I 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."
+
+ _Selman._
+
+
+11.
+
+Every 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.
+
+ _Afghan._
+
+
+12.
+
+The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged;
+wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.
+
+ _Magha._
+
+
+13.
+
+Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them
+with words which are not true.
+
+ _Bharavi._
+
+
+14.
+
+Reason is captive in the hands of the passions, as a weak man in the
+hands of an artful woman.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+15.
+
+Like 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.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+16.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Bhartrihari._
+
+
+17.
+
+Let us not overstrain our abilities, or we shall do nothing with
+grace. A clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman.
+
+ _La Fontaine._
+
+
+18.
+
+To abstain from speaking is regarded as very difficult. It is not
+possible to say much that is valuable and striking.[2]
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+ [2] Cf. James, III, 8.
+
+
+19.
+
+Pagodas are, like mosques, true houses of prayer;
+'Tis prayer that church bells waft upon the air;
+ Kaaba and temple, rosary and cross,
+All are but divers tongues of world-wide prayer.
+
+ _Omar Khayyam._
+
+
+20.
+
+In no wise ask about the faults of others, for he who reporteth the
+faults of others will report thine also.
+
+ _Firdausi._
+
+
+21.
+
+He that holds fast the golden mean,
+And lives contentedly between
+ The little and the great,
+Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
+Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door,
+ Embittering all his state.
+
+ _Horace._
+
+
+22.
+
+Nothing 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.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+23.
+
+Consider, 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.
+
+ _M. Aurelius._
+
+
+24.
+
+The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank
+with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.
+
+ _Bharavi._
+
+
+25.
+
+His action no applause invites
+Who simply good with good repays;
+ He only justly merits praise
+Who wrongful deeds with kind requites.[3]
+
+ _Panchatantra._
+
+ [3] Matt. V, 43, 44.
+
+
+26.
+
+Death comes, and makes a man his prey,
+ A man whose powers are yet unspent;
+ Like one on gathering flowers intent,
+Whose thoughts are turned another way.
+
+Begin betimes to practise good,
+ Lest fate surprise thee unawares
+ Amid thy round of schemes and cares;
+To-morrow's task to-day conclude.[4]
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+ [4] Eccles. IX, 10; XII, 1.
+
+
+27.
+
+Let 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.
+
+ _Hazlitt._
+
+
+28.
+
+It was a false maxim of Domitian that he who would gain the people
+of Rome 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.
+
+ _Feltham._
+
+
+29.
+
+He is not dead who departs this life with high fame; dead is he,
+though living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
+
+ _Tieck._
+
+
+30.
+
+In 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.
+
+ _Quarles._
+
+
+31.
+
+A prudent man will not discover his poverty, his self-torments, the
+disorders of his house, his uneasiness, or his disgrace.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+32.
+
+Men 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.
+
+ _Machiavelli._
+
+
+33.
+
+It is difficult to understand men, but still harder to know them
+thoroughly.
+
+ _Schiller._
+
+
+34.
+
+Worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtue of the mind;
+anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to the health of
+the body.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+35.
+
+Alas, for him who is gone and hath done no good work! The trumpet of
+march has sounded, and his load was not bound on.
+
+ _Persian._
+
+
+36.
+
+Human experience, like the stern-lights of a ship at sea, illumines
+only the path which we have passed over.
+
+ _Coleridge._
+
+
+37.
+
+Man is an actor who plays various parts:
+First comes a boy, then out a lover starts;
+His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar's rags;
+Then he's a merchant with full money-bags;
+Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean;
+At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.[5]
+
+ _Bhartrihari._
+
+ [5] Cf. Shakspeare:
+
+ "All the world's a stage," etc.--_As You Like It_,
+ Act II, _sc._ 7.
+
+
+38.
+
+Through avarice a man loses his understanding, and by his thirst for
+wealth he gives pain to the inhabitants of both worlds.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+39.
+
+Men soon the faults of others learn,
+ A few their virtues, too, find out;
+ But is there one--I have a doubt--
+Who can his own defects discern?
+
+ _Sanskrit._
+
+
+40.
+
+In learning, age and youth go for nothing; the best informed take
+the precedence.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+41.
+
+Mention not a blemish which is thy own in detraction of a neighbour.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+42.
+
+Affairs succeed by patience, and he that is hasty falleth headlong.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+43.
+
+A man who has learnt little grows old like an ox: his flesh grows,
+but his knowledge does not grow.
+
+ _Dhammapada._
+
+
+44.
+
+Unsullied poverty is always happy, while impure wealth brings with
+it many sorrows.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+45.
+
+Both white and black acknowledge women's sway,
+ So much the better and the wiser too,
+Deeming it most convenient to obey,
+ Or possibly they might their folly rue.[6]
+
+ _Persian._
+
+ [6] Cf. Pope:
+
+ Would men but follow what the sex advise,
+ All things would prosper, all the world grow wise.
+
+
+46.
+
+We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are
+dissatisfied with ourselves.
+
+ _Hazlitt._
+
+
+47.
+
+No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
+
+ _Richter._
+
+
+48.
+
+The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays
+its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth
+alone.
+
+ _Dante._
+
+
+49.
+
+This world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot
+read it.
+
+ _Goldoni._
+
+
+50.
+
+Sorrows are like thunder-clouds: in the distance they look black,
+over our heads, hardly gray.
+
+ _Richter._
+
+
+51.
+
+The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected
+without trials.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+52.
+
+Health is the greatest gift, contentedness the best riches.
+
+ _Dhammapada._
+
+
+53.
+
+Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish
+rushing into acts of extravagance.
+
+ _Demosthenes._
+
+
+54.
+
+Let none with scorn a suppliant meet,
+ Or from the door untended spurn
+A dog; an outcast kindly treat;
+ And so thou shalt be blest in turn.
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+
+55.
+
+Choose 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 that thou must render thy soul praiseworthy.
+
+ _Firdausi._
+
+
+56.
+
+Good fortune is a benefit to the wise, but a curse to the foolish.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+57.
+
+In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able
+to bear adversity and prosperity.
+
+ _Philemon._
+
+
+58.
+
+The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colourless when
+unbroken.
+
+ _Longfellow._
+
+
+59.
+
+There are three things which, in great quantity, are bad, and, in
+little, very good: leaven, salt, and liberality.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+60.
+
+Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at
+mediocrity will be far short of it.
+
+ _Burmese._
+
+
+61.
+
+Keep thy heart afar from sorrow, and be not anxious about the
+trouble which is not yet come.
+
+ _Firdausi._
+
+
+62.
+
+If thy garments be clean and thy heart be foul, thou needest no key
+to the door of hell.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+63.
+
+We ought never to mock the wretched, for who can be sure of being
+always happy?
+
+ _La Fontaine._
+
+
+64.
+
+To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.
+
+ _Sophocles._
+
+
+65.
+
+Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is
+drunk.
+
+ _Plato._
+
+
+66.
+
+Wrapt up in error is the human mind,
+ And human bliss is ever insecure;
+Know we what fortune yet remains behind?
+ Know we how long the present shall endure?
+
+ _Pindar._
+
+
+67.
+
+A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself
+to the vessel that contains it.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+68.
+
+He who formerly was reckless and afterwards became sober brightens
+up this world like the moon when freed from clouds.
+
+ _Dhammapada._
+
+
+69.
+
+When a base fellow cannot vie with another in merit he will attack
+him with malicious slander.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+70.
+
+If a man be not so happy as he desires, let this be his comfort--he
+is not so wretched as he deserves.
+
+ _R. Chamberlain._
+
+
+71.
+
+In 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.
+
+ _Sir W. Temple._
+
+
+72.
+
+The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very
+mistakes are so many lessons of instruction.
+
+ _Tom Browne._
+
+
+73.
+
+We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.
+
+ _Barrow._
+
+
+74.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Johnson._
+
+
+75.
+
+To reprehend well is the most necessary and the hardest part of
+friendship. Who is it that does not sometimes merit 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.
+
+ _Feltham._
+
+
+76.
+
+I put no account on him who esteems himself just as the popular
+breath may chance to raise him.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+77.
+
+He who seeks wealth sacrifices his own pleasure, and, like him who
+carries burdens for others, bears the load of anxiety.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+78.
+
+Circumspection in calamity; mercy in greatness; good speeches in
+assemblies; fortitude in adversity: these are the self-attained
+perfections of great souls.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+79.
+
+The best preacher is the heart; the best teacher is time; the best
+book is the world; the best friend is God.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+80.
+
+A 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.
+
+ _Bharavi._
+
+
+81.
+
+Men who have not observed discipline, and have not gained treasure
+in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish.
+
+ _Dhammapada._
+
+
+82.
+
+As 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.
+
+ _Bharavi._
+
+
+83.
+
+There 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.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+84.
+
+Let thy words between two foes be such that if they were to become
+friends thou shouldst not be ashamed.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+85.
+
+An 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.
+
+ _Addison._
+
+
+86.
+
+A man of quick and active wit
+For drudgery is more unfit,
+Compared to those of duller parts,
+Than running nags are to draw carts.
+
+ _Butler._
+
+
+87.
+
+All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to
+appear rich.
+
+ _Lavater._
+
+
+88.
+
+There never was, there never will be, a man who is always praised,
+or a man who is always blamed.
+
+ _Dhammapada._
+
+
+89.
+
+A 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.
+
+ _Magha._
+
+
+90.
+
+He who can feel ashamed will not readily do wrong.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+91.
+
+A stranger who is kind is a kinsman; an unkind kinsman is a
+stranger.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+92.
+
+The good to others kindness show,
+ And from them no return exact;
+The best and greatest men, they know,
+ Thus ever nobly love to act.[7]
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+ [7] Cf. Luke, VI, 34, 35.
+
+
+93.
+
+Trees 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.
+
+ _Bhartrihari._
+
+
+94.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+95.
+
+That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its
+object.
+
+ _Magha._
+
+
+96.
+
+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.[8]
+
+ _Burton._
+
+ [8] Ferriar has pointed out, in his _Illustrations of
+ Sterne_, how these passages from Burton's _Anatomy of
+ Melancholy_ have been boldly plagiarised in the
+ introduction to the fragment on Whiskers in _Tristram
+ Shandy_: "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 _Rambler_, No. 143.
+
+
+97.
+
+It is our follies that make our lives uncomfortable. Our errors of
+opinion, our cowardly fear of the world's worthless censure, and our
+eagerness after unnecessary gold have hampered the way of virtue,
+and made it far more difficult than, in itself, it is.
+
+ _Feltham._
+
+
+98.
+
+There is not half so much danger in the desperate sword of a known
+foe as in the smooth insinuations of a pretended friend.
+
+ _R. Chamberlain._
+
+
+99.
+
+Nothing 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.
+
+ _La Fontaine._
+
+
+100.
+
+All kinds of beauty do not inspire love: there is a kind of it which
+pleases only the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
+
+ _Cervantes._
+
+
+101.
+
+Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but in taking away
+some fire.
+
+ _Fuller._
+
+
+102.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Tillotson._
+
+
+103.
+
+The truest characters of ignorance
+Are vanity, pride, and arrogance;
+As blind men use to bear their noses higher
+Than those that have their eyes and sight entire.
+
+ _Butler._
+
+
+104.
+
+It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the
+air of undeserved commendation.
+
+ _R. Chamberlain._
+
+
+105.
+
+He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and
+guided by love.
+
+ _Sir P. Sidney._
+
+
+106.
+
+Never put thyself in the way of temptation: even David could not
+resist it.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+107.
+
+Pride is a vice which pride itself inclines every man to find in
+others and overlook in himself.
+
+ _Johnson._
+
+
+108.
+
+By 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.
+
+ _Arabic._
+
+
+109.
+
+Men 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.
+
+ _Sir R. L'Estrange._
+
+
+110.
+
+To exert his power in doing good is man's most glorious task.
+
+ _Sophocles._
+
+
+111.
+
+Those 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.
+
+ _Herodotus._
+
+
+112.
+
+Blinded by self-conceit and knowing nothing,
+Like elephant infatuate with passion,
+I thought within myself, I all things knew;
+But when by slow degrees I somewhat learnt
+By aid of wise preceptors, my conceit,
+Like some disease, passed off; and now I live
+In the plain sense of what a fool I am.
+
+ _Bhartrihari._
+
+
+113.
+
+Time 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.
+
+ _Von Humboldt._
+
+
+114.
+
+All 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.
+
+ _Dhammapada._
+
+
+115.
+
+Depend not on another, rather lean
+Upon thyself; trust to thine own exertions:
+Subjection to another's will gives pain;
+True happiness consists in self-reliance.
+
+ _Manu._
+
+
+116.
+
+If 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.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+117.
+
+Anger 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.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+118.
+
+Be 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.
+
+ _Bharavi._
+
+
+119.
+
+As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion breaks through
+an unreflecting mind.
+
+ _Dhammapada._
+
+
+120.
+
+Most 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.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+121.
+
+Poverty, 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.
+
+ _Carlyle._
+
+
+122.
+
+By Fate full many a heart has been undone,
+And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone;
+ Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength:
+Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.
+
+ _Omar Khayyam._
+
+
+123.
+
+The best thing is to be respected, the next, is to be loved; it is
+bad to be hated, but still worse to be despised.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+124.
+
+To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
+
+ _Pindar._
+
+
+125.
+
+He only does not live in vain
+Who all the means within his reach
+ Employs--his wealth, his thought, his speech--
+T'advance the weal of other men.
+
+ _Sanskrit._
+
+
+126.
+
+If you injure a harmless person, the evil will fall back upon you,
+like light dust thrown up against the wind.
+
+ _Buddhist._
+
+
+127.
+
+In 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.
+
+ _Longfellow._
+
+
+128.
+
+Man 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 mere physical being or a pure spirit can alone be satisfied with
+itself.
+
+ _Hazlitt._
+
+
+129.
+
+The pure in heart, who fear to sin,
+The good, kindly in word and deed--
+These are the beings in the world
+Whose nature should be called divine.
+
+ _Buddhist._
+
+
+130.
+
+If 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.
+
+ _Firdausi._
+
+
+131.
+
+A 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.
+
+ _Sanskrit._
+
+
+132.
+
+The 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.[9]
+
+ _Burmese._
+
+ [9] Cf. Proverbs, XXV, 3.
+
+
+133.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Feltham._
+
+
+134.
+
+I 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.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+135.
+
+There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty
+comparable to the want of patience.
+
+ _R. Chamberlain._
+
+
+136.
+
+'Tis not for gain, for fame, from fear
+ That righteous men injustice shun,
+And virtuous men hold virtue dear:
+An inward voice they seem to hear,
+ Which tells them duty must be done.
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+
+137.
+
+As far and wide the vernal breeze
+Sweet odours waft from blooming trees,
+So, too, the grateful savour spreads
+To distant lands of virtuous deeds.
+
+ _Sanskrit._
+
+
+138.
+
+In 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.
+
+ _Firdausi._
+
+
+139.
+
+When morning silvers the dark firmament,
+Why shrills the bird of dawning his lament?
+ It is to show in dawn's bright looking-glass
+How of thy careless life a night is spent.
+
+ _Omar Khayyam._
+
+
+140.
+
+Be thou generous, and gentle, and forgiving; as God hath scattered
+upon thee, scatter thou upon others.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+141.
+
+In the body restraint is good; good is restraint in speech; in
+thought restraint is good: good is restraint in all things.
+
+ _Dhammapada._
+
+
+142.
+
+Men 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 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.
+
+ _Plato._
+
+
+143.
+
+A 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?
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+144.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Schopenhauer._
+
+
+145.
+
+Good 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.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+146.
+
+Purpose without power is mere weakness and deception; and power
+without purpose is mere fatuity.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+147.
+
+Suffering is the necessary consequence of sin, just as when you eat
+a sour fruit a stomach complaint ensues.
+
+ _Burmese._
+
+
+148.
+
+Riches disclose in a man's character the bad qualities formerly
+concealed in his poverty.
+
+ _Arabic._
+
+
+149.
+
+Whate'er the work a man performs,
+The most effective aid to its completion--
+The most prolific source of true success--
+Is energy, without despondency.
+
+ _Ramayana._
+
+
+150.
+
+Humility 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.
+
+ _Selden._
+
+
+151.
+
+Authority intoxicates,
+And makes mere sots of magistrates;
+The fumes of it invade the brain,
+And make men giddy, proud, and vain;
+By this the fool commands the wise,
+The noble with the base complies,
+The sot assumes the rule of wit,
+And cowards make the base submit.
+
+ _Butler._
+
+
+152.
+
+No 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.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+153.
+
+Increase 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.
+
+ _Firdausi._
+
+
+154.
+
+Parents' affection is best shown by their teaching their children
+industry and self-denial.
+
+ _Burmese._
+
+
+155.
+
+There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is
+young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of
+his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.
+
+ _Confucius._
+
+
+156.
+
+He who has given satisfaction to the best of his time has lived for
+ages.
+
+ _Schiller._
+
+
+157.
+
+I never yet found pride in a noble nature nor humility in an
+unworthy mind.
+
+ _Feltham._
+
+
+158.
+
+Worldly fame is but a breath of wind, that blows now this way, now
+that, and changes name as it changes sides.
+
+ _Dante._
+
+
+159.
+
+True modesty and true pride are much the same thing. Both consist in
+setting a just value on ourselves--neither more nor less.
+
+ _Hazlitt._
+
+
+160.
+
+Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his
+manner of portraying another.
+
+ _Richter._
+
+
+161.
+
+A foolish husband fears his wife; a prudent wife obeys her husband.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+162.
+
+He 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.
+
+ _Metastasio._
+
+
+163.
+
+Laughing 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.
+
+ _Goldoni._
+
+
+164.
+
+The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so
+even amidst an army of soldiers.
+
+ _Cervantes._
+
+
+165.
+
+Petty ambition would seem to be a mean craving after distinction.
+
+ _Theophrastus._
+
+
+166.
+
+It is an old observation that wise men grow usually wiser as they
+grow older, and fools more foolish.
+
+ _Wieland._
+
+
+167.
+
+Use 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.
+
+ _Quarles._
+
+
+168.
+
+In 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.
+
+ _Feltham._
+
+
+169.
+
+Every 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.
+
+ _Burton._
+
+
+170.
+
+Repeated sin destroys the understanding
+And he whose reason is impaired repeats
+His sins. The constant practising of virtue
+Strengthens the mental faculties, and he
+Whose judgment stronger grows acts always right.
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+
+171.
+
+If 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.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+172.
+
+The man who listens not to the words of affectionate friends will
+give joy in the time of distress to his enemies.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+173.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Von Humboldt._
+
+
+174.
+
+Be 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.
+
+ _Quarles._
+
+
+175.
+
+Assume in adversity a countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity
+moderate thy temper.
+
+ _Livy._
+
+
+176.
+
+Mark this! who lives beyond his means
+Forfeits respect, loses his sense;
+Where'er he goes, through the seven births,
+All count him knave: him women hate.
+
+ _Hindu Poetess._
+
+
+177.
+
+Be 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.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+178.
+
+Man, though he be gray-headed when he comes back, soon gets a young
+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.
+
+ _Aristophanes._
+
+
+179.
+
+Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes
+Kindle a flame of love that never dies;
+And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths,
+Offer themselves a burning sacrifice.
+
+ _Omar Khayyam._
+
+
+180.
+
+When thou utterest not a word thou hast laid thy hand upon it; when
+thou hast uttered it, it hath laid its hand on thee.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+181.
+
+To the tongue which bringeth thee words without reason, the answer
+that best beseemeth thee is--silence.
+
+ _Nizami._
+
+
+182.
+
+The man who talketh much and never acteth will not be held in
+reputation by anyone.
+
+ _Firdausi._
+
+
+183.
+
+Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both
+thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.
+
+ _Magha._
+
+
+184.
+
+The worse the ill that fate on noble souls
+Inflicts, the more their firmness; and they arm
+Their spirits with adamant to meet the blow.
+
+ _Hindu Drama._
+
+
+185.
+
+Opportunities lose not, for all delay is madness;
+'Mid bitter sorrow patience show, for 'tis the key of gladness.
+
+ _Turkish._
+
+
+186.
+
+Man 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.
+
+ _Egerton Smith._
+
+
+187.
+
+The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of
+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.
+
+ _Herodotus._
+
+
+188.
+
+Love of money is the disease which renders us most pitiful and
+grovelling, and love of pleasure is that which renders us most
+despicable.
+
+ _Longinus._
+
+
+189.
+
+He who labours diligently need never despair. We can accomplish
+every thing by diligence and labour.
+
+ _Menander._
+
+
+190.
+
+Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs
+Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
+
+ _Juvenal._
+
+
+191.
+
+In one short verse I here express
+The sum of tomes of sacred lore:
+Beneficence is righteousness,
+Oppression's sin's malignant core.
+
+ _Sanskrit._
+
+
+192.
+
+A wound inflicted by arrows heals, a wood cut down by an axe grows,
+but harsh words are hateful--a wound inflicted 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.
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+
+193.
+
+To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere
+threshing of chaff.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+194.
+
+All the blessings of a household come through the wife, therefore
+should her husband honour her.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+195.
+
+Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them,
+but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+196.
+
+All 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.
+
+ _Hindu Drama._
+
+
+197.
+
+One of the diseases of this age is the multitude of books. It is a
+thriftless 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.
+
+ _Barnaby Rich._
+
+
+198.
+
+We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our
+ignorance.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+199.
+
+The angel grows up in divine knowledge, the brute, in savage
+ignorance, and the son of man stands hesitating between the two.
+
+ _Persian._
+
+
+200.
+
+She 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 your distresses they are as mothers, and they
+are refreshment to those who are travellers in the rugged paths of
+life.
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+
+201.
+
+He 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.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+202.
+
+While 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.
+
+ _Goldsmith._
+
+
+203.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Demosthenes._
+
+
+204.
+
+The interval is immense between corporeal qualifications and
+sciences: the body in a moment is extinct, but knowledge endureth to
+the end of time.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+205.
+
+If thou lackest knowledge, what hast thou then acquired? Hast thou
+acquired knowledge, what else dost thou want?
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+206.
+
+Be modest and simple in your deportment, and treat with indifference
+whatever lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race; obey
+God.
+
+ _Marcus Aurelius._
+
+
+207.
+
+Bootless grief hurts a man's self, but patience makes a jest of an
+injury.
+
+ _R. Chamberlain._
+
+
+208.
+
+Poverty without debt is independence.
+
+ _Arabic._
+
+
+209.
+
+Just as the track of birds that cleave the air
+Is not discovered, nor yet the path of fish
+That skim the water, so the course of those
+Who do good actions is not always seen.
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+
+210.
+
+He who has wealth has friends; he who has wealth has relations; he
+who has wealth is a hero among the people; he who has wealth is even
+a sage.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+211.
+
+Like a beautiful flower, full of colour but without scent, are the
+fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.
+
+ _Dhammapada._
+
+
+212.
+
+When men are doubtful of the true state of things, their wishes lead
+them to believe in what is most agreeable.
+
+ _Arrianus._
+
+
+213.
+
+Most men the good they have despise,
+And blessings which they have not prize:
+In winter, wish for summer's glow,
+In summer, long for winter's snow.
+
+ _Sanskrit._
+
+
+214.
+
+The best conduct a man can adopt is that which gains him the esteem
+of others without depriving him of his own.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+215.
+
+Whoso 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 tavern, he
+would not be supposed to go there for prayer, but to drink
+intoxicating liquor.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+216.
+
+The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have
+not regarded its tenure as secure.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+217.
+
+The dull-hued turkey apes the gait
+Of lordly peacock, richly plumed;
+And thus the poetaster shows
+When he would fain his verse recite.
+
+ _Hindu Poetess._
+
+
+218.
+
+Knowledge 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.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+219.
+
+An evil-minded man is quick to see
+His neighbour's faults, though small as mustard seed;
+But when he turns his eyes towards his own,
+Though large as _bilva_ fruit, he none descries.
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+
+220.
+
+Two persons die remorseful: he who possessed and enjoyed not, and he
+who knew but did not practise.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+221.
+
+With 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.
+
+ _Jami._
+
+
+222.
+
+The thing we want eludes our grasp,
+Some other thing is given; sometimes
+Our wish is gained, and gifts unsought
+Are ours; these all are God's own work.
+
+ _Hindu Poetess._
+
+
+223.
+
+If a man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men, and if
+another conquer himself, he is the greater of conquerors.[10]
+
+ _Dhammapada._
+
+ [10] Cf. Prov. XVI, 32.
+
+
+224.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Demosthenes._
+
+
+225.
+
+Amongst all possessions knowledge appears pre-eminent. The wise call
+it supreme riches, because it can never be lost, has no price, and
+can at no time be destroyed.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+226.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Longfellow._
+
+
+227.
+
+He 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.
+
+ _Burmese._
+
+
+228.
+
+If your foot slip, you may recover your balance, but if your tongue
+slip, you cannot recall your words.
+
+ _Telugu._
+
+
+229.
+
+A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as the hollow mountain
+returns all sounds.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+230.
+
+Women are ever masters when they like,
+And cozen with their kindness; they have spells
+Superior to the wand of the magicians;
+And from their lips the words of wisdom fall,
+Like softest music on the listening ear.
+
+ _Firdausi._
+
+
+231.
+
+A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or
+anything that is worse than a bad one.
+
+ _Simonides._
+
+
+232.
+
+The wife of bad conduct--constantly pleased with quarrelling--she is
+known by wise men to be cruel Old Age in the form of a wife.
+
+ _Panchatantra._
+
+
+233.
+
+I 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.
+
+ _Machiavelli._
+
+
+234.
+
+By nature all men are alike, but by education very different.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+235.
+
+Whilom, ere youth's conceit had waned, methought
+Answers to all life's problems I had wrought;
+ But now, grown old and wise, too late I see
+My life is spent, and all my lore is nought.
+
+ _Omar Khayyam._
+
+
+236.
+
+Weak men gain their object when allied with strong associates: the
+brook reaches the ocean by the river's aid.
+
+ _Magha._
+
+
+237.
+
+A swan is out of place among crows, a lion among bulls, a horse
+among asses, and a wise man among fools.
+
+ _Burmese._
+
+
+238.
+
+Whosoever 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."
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+239.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Boileau._
+
+
+240.
+
+Ask not a man who his father was but make trial of his qualities,
+and then 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.
+
+ _Arabic._
+
+
+241.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Bhartrihari._
+
+
+242.
+
+We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his
+own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+243.
+
+Men 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.
+
+ _Machiavelli._
+
+
+244.
+
+Obstinate 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.
+
+ _Hazlitt._
+
+
+245.
+
+If 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.
+
+ _Quarles._
+
+
+246.
+
+Those noble men who falsehood dread
+ In wealth and glory ever grow,
+ As flames with greater brightness glow
+With oil in ceaseless flow when fed.
+
+But like to flames with water drenched,
+ Which, faintly flickering, die away,
+ So liars day by day decay,
+Till all their lustre soon is quenched.
+
+ _Sanskrit._
+
+
+247.
+
+Watch 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.
+
+ _Firdausi._
+
+
+248.
+
+If thou art a man, speak not much about thine own manliness, for not
+every champion driveth the ball to the goal.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+249.
+
+The potter forms what he pleases with soft clay, so a man
+accomplishes his works by his own act.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+250.
+
+No 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.
+
+ _Aristotle._
+
+
+251.
+
+An ass will with his long ears fray
+The flies that tickle him away;
+But man delights to have his ears
+Blown maggots in by flatterers.
+
+ _Butler._
+
+
+252.
+
+Books 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.
+
+ _Montaigne._
+
+
+253.
+
+He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+254.
+
+If with a stranger thou discourse, first learn,
+By strictest observation, to discern
+If he be wiser than thyself, if so,
+Be dumb, and rather choose by him to know;
+But if thyself perchance the wiser be,
+Then do thou speak, that he may learn by thee.
+
+ _Randolph._
+
+
+255.
+
+Being continually in people's sight, by the satiety which it
+creates, diminishes the reverence felt for great characters.
+
+ _Livy._
+
+
+256.
+
+There is a great difference between one who can feel ashamed before
+his own soul and one who is only ashamed before his fellow men.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+257.
+
+By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control the
+wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can
+overwhelm.
+
+ _Dhammapada._
+
+
+258.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Hazlitt._
+
+
+259.
+
+To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority
+and example 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.
+
+ _Schopenhauer._
+
+
+260.
+
+Poesy 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.
+
+ _Cervantes._
+
+
+261.
+
+How 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.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+262.
+
+Man is supreme lord and master
+Of his own ruin and disaster,
+Controls his fate, but nothing less
+In ordering his own happiness:
+For all his care and providence
+Is too feeble a defence
+To render it secure and certain
+Against the injuries of Fortune;
+And oft, in spite of all his wit,
+Is lost by one unlucky hit,
+And ruined with a circumstance,
+And mere punctilio of a chance.
+
+ _Butler._
+
+
+263.
+
+There is nothing in this world which a resolute man, who exerts
+himself, cannot attain.
+
+ _Somadeva._
+
+
+264.
+
+Ere need be shown, some men will act,
+As trees may fruit without a flower;
+To some you speak with no result,
+As seeds may die, and yield no grain.
+
+ _Hindu Poetess._
+
+
+265.
+
+Seven 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 conviction. The reverse of all this
+characterises the blockhead.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+266.
+
+How 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.
+
+ _Longfellow._
+
+
+267.
+
+What avails your wealth, if it makes you arrogant to the poor?
+
+ _Arabic._
+
+
+268.
+
+All 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.
+
+ _La Bruyere._
+
+
+269.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Hazlitt._
+
+
+270.
+
+The mind alike,
+Vigorous or weak, is capable of culture,
+But still bears fruit according to its nature.
+'Tis not the teacher's skill that rears the scholar:
+The sparkling gem gives back the glorious radiance
+It drinks from other light, but the dull earth
+Absorbs the blaze, and yields no gleam again.
+
+ _Bhavabhuti._
+
+
+271.
+
+One 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.
+
+ _Herodotus._
+
+
+272.
+
+This body is a tent which for a space
+Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace;
+ When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death,
+Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.
+
+ _Omar Khayyam._
+
+
+273.
+
+Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require
+it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means:
+listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.
+
+ _Hafiz._
+
+
+274.
+
+The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from
+pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is
+ended.
+
+ _Bharavi._
+
+
+275.
+
+He who toils with pain will eat with pleasure.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+276.
+
+A day of fortune is like a harvest-day, we must be busy when the
+corn is ripe.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+277.
+
+The fame of good men's actions seldom goes beyond their own doors,
+but their evil deeds are carried a thousand miles' distance.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+278.
+
+A 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.
+
+ _Magha._
+
+
+279.
+
+It is good to tame the mind, which is difficult to hold in, and
+flighty, rushing wheresoever it listeth: a tamed mind brings
+blessings.
+
+ _Dhammapada._
+
+
+280.
+
+The man who every sacred science knows,
+Yet has not strength to keep in check the foes
+That rise within him, mars his Fortune's fame,
+And brings her by his feebleness to shame.
+
+ _Bharavi._
+
+
+281.
+
+What a rich man gives and what he consumes, that is his real worth.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+282.
+
+He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than
+he imagines.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+283.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Burton._
+
+
+284.
+
+With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of
+thought: they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold
+mines under the ground.
+
+ _Longfellow._
+
+
+285.
+
+The doctrine that enters only into the ear is like the repast one
+takes in a dream.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+286.
+
+Adorn thy mind with knowledge, for knowledge maketh thy worth.
+
+ _Firdausi._
+
+
+287.
+
+Men hail the rising sun with glee,
+They love his setting glow to see,
+But fail to mark that every day
+In fragments bears their life away.
+
+All Nature's face delight to view,
+As changing seasons come anew;
+None sees how each revolving year
+Abridges swiftly man's career.
+
+ _Ramayana._
+
+
+288.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Bhartrihari._
+
+
+289.
+
+No one hath come into the world for a continuance save him who
+leaveth behind him a good name.[11]
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+ [11] Cf. 29.
+
+
+290.
+
+Gross 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.
+
+ _La Bruyere._
+
+
+291.
+
+When 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.
+
+ _Menander._
+
+
+292.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Aristotle._
+
+
+293.
+
+Happy the man who early learns the difference between his wishes and
+his powers.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+294.
+
+There is nothing more pitiable in the world than an irresolute man
+vacillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two,
+and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+295.
+
+Beauty 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.
+
+ _Cervantes._
+
+
+296.
+
+We are more sociable and get on better with people by the heart than
+the intellect.
+
+ _La Bruyere._
+
+
+297.
+
+A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the
+ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.
+
+ _Bhartrihari._
+
+
+298.
+
+Do not anxiously expect what is not yet come; do not vainly regret
+what is already past.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+299.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Quarles._
+
+
+300.
+
+If 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.
+
+ _Metastasio._
+
+
+301.
+
+There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from
+knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of
+conversation.
+
+ _Hazlitt._
+
+
+302.
+
+Whoever brings cheerfulness to his work, and is ever active, dashes
+through the world's labours.
+
+ _Tieck._
+
+
+303.
+
+Grossness is not difficult to define: it is obtrusive and
+objectionable pleasantry.
+
+ _Theophrastus._
+
+
+304.
+
+Do not consider any vice as trivial, and therefore practise it; do
+not consider any virtue as unimportant, and therefore neglect it.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+305.
+
+To bad as well as good, to all,
+A generous man compassion shows;
+ On earth no mortal lives, he knows,
+Who does not oft through weakness fall.
+
+ _Ramayana._
+
+
+306.
+
+The good extend their loving care
+ To men, however mean or vile;
+E'en base Chandalas'[12] dwellings share
+ Th' impartial sunbeam's silver smile.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+ [12] Chandalas, or Pariahs, are the lowest, or of no caste.
+
+
+307.
+
+Let 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.
+
+ _Manu._
+
+
+308.
+
+We 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.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+309.
+
+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.[13]
+
+ _Bhartrihari._
+
+ [13] In many parts of the East there is practically no
+ twilight.
+
+
+310.
+
+A 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.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+311.
+
+The noble-minded dedicate themselves to the promotion of the
+happiness of others--even of those who injure them. True happiness
+consists in making happy.
+
+ _Bharavi._
+
+
+312.
+
+A 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.
+
+ _Buddhist._
+
+
+313.
+
+The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the
+right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush,
+kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.
+
+ _Bharavi._
+
+
+314.
+
+All love, at first, like generous wine,
+Ferments and frets until 'tis fine;
+But when 'tis settled on the lee,
+And from th' impurer matter free,
+Becomes the richer still the older,
+And proves the pleasanter the colder.
+
+ _Butler._
+
+
+315.
+
+Safe in thy breast close lock up thy intents,
+For he that knows thy purpose best prevents.
+
+ _Randolph._
+
+
+316.
+
+Frugality should ever be practised, but not excessive parsimony.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+317.
+
+He 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.
+
+ _Demosthenes._
+
+
+318.
+
+Pride not thyself on thy religious works,
+Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts:
+By pride religious merit melts away,
+The merit of thy alms, by ostentation.
+
+ _Manu._
+
+
+319.
+
+The empty beds of rivers fill again;
+Trees leafless now renew their vernal bloom;
+ Returning moons their lustrous phase resume;
+But man a second youth expects in vain.[14]
+
+ _Somadeva._
+
+ [14] Cf. Job, XIV, 7.
+
+
+320.
+
+Shall He to thee His aid refuse
+Who clothes the swan in dazzling white,
+ Who robes in green the parrot bright,
+The peacocks decks in rainbow hues?[15]
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+ [15] Cf. Matt. VI, 25, 26.
+
+
+321.
+
+A bad man is as much pleased as a good man is distressed to speak
+ill of others.
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+
+322.
+
+Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own
+peculiar way.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+323.
+
+There is such a grateful tickling in the mind of man in being
+commended that even when we know the praises which are bestowed on
+us are not our due, we are not angry with the author's insincerity.
+
+ _Feltham._
+
+
+324.
+
+Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless
+mischief.
+
+ _R. Chamberlain._
+
+
+325.
+
+There is no remembrance which time doth not obliterate, nor pain
+which death doth not put an end to.
+
+ _Cervantes._
+
+
+326.
+
+Look 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.
+
+ _Longfellow._
+
+
+327.
+
+Plans that are wise and prudent in themselves are rendered vain when
+the execution of them is carried on negligently and with imprudence.
+
+ _Guicciardini._
+
+
+328.
+
+Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for
+ourselves is given us. Man is made great or little by his own will.
+
+ _Schiller._
+
+
+329.
+
+Hath 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.
+
+ _Quarles._
+
+
+330.
+
+As gold is tried by the furnace, and the baser metal shown, so the
+hollow-hearted friend is known by adversity.
+
+ _Metastasio._
+
+
+331.
+
+The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the
+thorns did not outlive the rose.
+
+ _Richter._
+
+
+332.
+
+Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a
+good-natured man have a double effect.
+
+ _Hazlitt._
+
+
+333.
+
+Most virgins marry, just as nuns
+The same thing the same way renounce;
+Before they've wit to understand
+The bold attempt, they take in hand;
+Or, having stayed and lost their tides,
+Are out of season grown for brides.
+
+ _Butler._
+
+
+334.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Johnson._
+
+
+335.
+
+In 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.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+336.
+
+Misanthropy 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 whole world, and
+thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.
+
+ _Plato._
+
+
+337.
+
+Pleasure, 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.
+
+ _Coleridge._
+
+
+338.
+
+Entangled in a hundred worldly snares,
+Self-seeking men, by ignorance deluded,
+Strive by unrighteous means to pile up riches.
+Then, in their self-complacency, they say,
+"This acquisition I have made to-day,
+That will I gain to-morrow, so much pelf
+Is hoarded up already, so much more
+Remains that I have yet to treasure up.
+This enemy I have destroyed, him also,
+And others in their turn, I will despatch.
+I am a lord; I will enjoy myself;
+I'm wealthy, noble, strong, successful, happy;
+I'm absolutely perfect; no one else
+In all the world can be compared to me.
+Now will I offer up a sacrifice,
+Give gifts with lavish hand, and be triumphant."
+Such men, befooled by endless vain conceits,
+Caught in the meshes of the world's illusion,
+Immersed in sensuality, descend
+Down to the foulest hell of unclean spirits.[16]
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+ [16] Cf. Luke, XII, 17-20; see also 291.
+
+
+339.
+
+There needs no other charm, nor conjuror,
+To raise infernal spirits up, but Fear,
+That makes men pull their horns in, like a snail,
+That's both a prisoner to itself and jail;
+Draws more fantastic shapes than in the grains
+Of knotted wood, in some men's crazy brains,
+When all the cocks they think they are, and bulls,
+Are only in the insides of their skulls.
+
+ _Butler._
+
+
+340.
+
+He 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.
+
+ _R. Chamberlain._
+
+
+341.
+
+The more weakness the more falsehood; strength goes straight: every
+cannon ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked.
+
+ _Richter._
+
+
+342.
+
+Learning dissipates many doubts, and causes things otherwise
+invisible to be seen, and is the eye of everyone who is not
+absolutely blind.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+343.
+
+Very distasteful is excessive fame
+ To the sour palate of the envious mind,
+Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name,
+ And hates the fortune that he ne'er shall find.
+
+ _Pindar._
+
+
+344.
+
+A 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.
+
+ _Tillotson._
+
+
+345.
+
+Time, 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.
+
+ _Rabelais._
+
+
+346.
+
+Were all thy fond endeavours vain
+ To chase away the sufferer's smart,
+Still hover near, lest absence pain
+ His lonely heart.
+
+For friendship's tones have kindlier power
+ Than odorous fruit, or nectared bowl,
+To soothe, in sorrow's languid hour,
+ The sinking soul.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+347.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Dhammapada._
+
+
+348.
+
+Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to
+make a good man.
+
+ _Aristotle._
+
+
+349.
+
+Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked
+together in a kind of necessary connection.
+
+ _Livy._
+
+
+350.
+
+Enjoy thou the prosperity of others,
+Although thyself unprosperous; noble men
+Take pleasure in their neighbours' happiness.
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+
+351.
+
+Neither 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.
+
+ _Buddhist._
+
+
+352.
+
+In 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.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+353.
+
+There 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.
+
+ _Menander._
+
+
+354.
+
+The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the
+gift itself. There is a princely manner of giving and accepting.
+
+ _Lavater._
+
+
+355.
+
+Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the
+transition from the former to the latter.
+
+ _Carlyle._
+
+
+356.
+
+Superstition 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.
+
+ _Burke._
+
+
+357.
+
+Fair words without good deeds to a man in misery are like a saddle
+of gold clapped upon a galled horse.
+
+ _Chamberlain._
+
+
+358.
+
+There 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.
+
+ _Sir Thomas Browne._
+
+
+359.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Richter._
+
+
+360.
+
+Our time is like our money; when we change a guinea the shillings
+escape as things of small account; when we break a day by idleness
+in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our
+eyes.
+
+ _Sir Walter Scott._
+
+
+361.
+
+Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same
+person.
+
+ _Lavater._
+
+
+362.
+
+Wit and wisdom differ. Wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is in
+bringing about ends.
+
+ _Selden._
+
+
+363.
+
+Real and solid happiness springs from moderation.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+364.
+
+In all the world there is no vice
+Less prone t'excess than avarice;
+It neither cares for food nor clothing:
+Nature's content with little, that with nothing.
+
+ _Butler._
+
+
+365.
+
+Beside the streamlet seated, mark how life glides on:
+That sign, how swift each moment goes, to me's enough.
+Behold this world's delights, and view its various pains:
+If not to you, the joy it shows to me's enough.
+
+ _Hafiz._
+
+
+366.
+
+The lake no longer water holds--
+Off fly the fowls, the lilies stay:
+If friends are friends when wealth is gone,
+The lily's constancy they share.
+
+ _Hindu Poetess._
+
+
+367.
+
+Let 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.
+
+ _Aristotle._
+
+
+368.
+
+All 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.[17]
+
+ _Akhlak-i-Jalali._
+
+ [17] See 44.
+
+
+369.
+
+We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble
+one another.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+370.
+
+Root out the love of self, as you might the autumn lotus with your
+hand.
+
+ _Buddhist._
+
+
+371.
+
+Whoever has the seed of virtue and honour implanted in his breast
+will drop a sympathising tear on the woes of his neighbour.
+
+ _Nakhshabi._
+
+
+372.
+
+Do naught to others which, if done to thee, would cause thee pain:
+this is the sum of duty.[18]
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+ [18] Cf. Matt. VII, 12.
+
+
+373.
+
+A 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.[19]
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+ [19] Cf. Arab proverb: "A dog's tail never can be made
+ straight."
+
+
+374.
+
+The man who cannot blush, and who has no feelings of fear, has
+reached the acme of impudence.
+
+ _Menander._
+
+
+375.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Plutarch._
+
+
+376.
+
+Such 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.
+
+ _Seneca._
+
+
+377.
+
+I do remember stopping by the way,
+To watch a potter thumping his wet clay;
+ And with its all-obliterated tongue
+It murmured, "Gently, brother, gently, pray!"
+
+ _Omar Khayyam._
+
+
+378.
+
+If you only knew the evils which others suffer, you would willingly
+submit to those which you now bear.
+
+ _Philemon._
+
+
+379.
+
+Children form a bond of union than which the human heart finds none
+more enduring.
+
+ _Livy._
+
+
+380.
+
+The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy,
+And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.
+
+ _Juvenal._
+
+
+381.
+
+To our own sorrows serious heed we give,
+But for another's we soon cease to grieve.
+
+ _Pindar._
+
+
+382.
+
+Can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our
+journey's end, we should lay in the more provision for it?
+
+ _Cicero._
+
+
+383.
+
+Set about whatever you intend to do; the beginning is half the
+battle.
+
+ _Ausonius._
+
+
+384.
+
+All smatterers are more brisk and pert
+Than those who understand an art;
+As little sparkles shine more bright
+Than glowing coals that gave them light.
+
+ _Butler._
+
+
+385.
+
+No prince, how great soever, begets his predecessors, and the
+noblest rivers are not navigable to the fountain.
+
+ _A. Marvell._
+
+
+386.
+
+The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.
+
+ _Epicurus._
+
+
+387.
+
+In everything you will find annoyances, but you ought to consider
+whether the advantages do not predominate.
+
+ _Menander._
+
+
+388.
+
+Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have
+most occupied the thoughts during the day.
+
+ _Herodotus._
+
+
+389.
+
+Sleeping, we image what awake we wish;
+Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.[20]
+
+ _Theocritus._
+
+ [20] Cf. Arab proverb: "The dream of the cat is always about
+ mice."
+
+
+390.
+
+A man who does not endeavour to _seem_ 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.
+
+ _Hazlitt._
+
+
+391.
+
+There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face,
+and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated
+life.
+
+ _Richter._
+
+
+392.
+
+From things which have been obtained after having been long desired
+men almost never derive the pleasure and delight which they had
+anticipated.
+
+ _Guicciardini._
+
+
+393.
+
+Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its
+winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in
+prosperity.
+
+ _Quarles._
+
+
+394.
+
+Every 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.
+
+ _Burton._
+
+
+395.
+
+Some 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.
+
+ _L'Estrange._
+
+
+396.
+
+He alone is poor who does not possess knowledge.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+397.
+
+It is not enough to know; we must apply what we know. It is not
+enough to will; we must also act.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+398.
+
+Words 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.
+
+ _Arabic._
+
+
+399.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Omar Khayyam._
+
+
+400.
+
+As one might nurse a tiny flame,
+The able and far-seeing man,
+E'en with the smallest capital,
+Can raise himself to wealth.
+
+ _Buddhist._
+
+
+401.
+
+By a husband wealth is accumulated; by a wife is its preservation.
+
+ _Burmese._
+
+
+402.
+
+It 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, as the tossings and fluctuations of the sea continue
+several hours after the winds are laid.
+
+ _Addison._
+
+
+403.
+
+Hypocrisy will serve as well
+To propagate a church as zeal;
+As persecution and promotion
+Do equally advance devotion:
+So round white stones will serve, they say,
+As well as eggs, to make hens lay.
+
+ _Butler._
+
+
+404.
+
+Man 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.
+
+ _Aristotle._
+
+
+405.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Feltham._
+
+
+406.
+
+What 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.
+
+ _Bhartrihari._
+
+
+407.
+
+If 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.[21]
+
+ _Plato._
+
+ [21] Cf. Matt. V, 43, 44.
+
+
+408.
+
+Faith 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.
+
+ _Schopenhauer._
+
+
+409.
+
+We 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.
+
+ _Metastasio._
+
+
+410.
+
+Empty 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.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+411.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Aristotle._
+
+
+412.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Demosthenes._
+
+
+413.
+
+A man ought not to return evil for evil, as many think, since at no
+time ought we to do an injury to our neighbour.[22]
+
+ _Plato._
+
+ [22] Cf. Rom. XII, 19; 1 Thess. V, 15.
+
+
+414.
+
+In 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.
+
+ _Feltham._
+
+
+415.
+
+He who will not freely and sadly confess that he is _much_ a fool is
+_all_ a fool.
+
+ _Fuller._
+
+
+416.
+
+The man with hoary head is not revered as aged by the gods, but only
+he who has true knowledge; he, though young, is old.
+
+ _Manu._
+
+
+417.
+
+No fathers and mothers think their own children ugly, and this
+self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the
+mind.
+
+ _Cervantes._
+
+
+418.
+
+In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not
+too 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.
+
+ _Quarles._
+
+
+419.
+
+We 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.
+
+ _Hazlitt._
+
+
+420.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Guicciardini._
+
+
+421.
+
+Among wonderful things is a sore-eyed man who is an oculist.
+
+ _Arabic._
+
+
+422.
+
+Gold gives the appearance of beauty even to ugliness; but everything
+becomes frightful with poverty.
+
+ _Boileau._
+
+
+423.
+
+When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness
+of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.
+
+ _R. Chamberlain._
+
+
+424.
+
+Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like
+energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.
+
+ _Bhartrihari._
+
+
+425.
+
+The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+426.
+
+We must oblige everybody as much as we can; we have often need of
+assistance from those inferior to ourselves.
+
+ _La Fontaine._
+
+
+427.
+
+We 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.
+
+ _Feltham._
+
+
+428.
+
+There 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 best
+steps whereby to climb to any excellence, nay, it is rare that there
+is any other other way.
+
+ _Feltham._
+
+
+429.
+
+In sooth, it is a shame to choose rather to be still borrowing in
+all places, from everybody, than to work and win.
+
+ _Rabelais._
+
+
+430.
+
+Behaviour is a mirror in which every one shows his image.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+431.
+
+There is nothing more daring than ignorance.
+
+ _Menander._
+
+
+432.
+
+It is not easy to stop the fire when the water is at a distance;
+friends at hand are better than relations afar off.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+433.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Panchatantra._
+
+
+434.
+
+Noble birth is an accident of fortune, noble actions characterise
+the great.
+
+ _Goldoni._
+
+
+435.
+
+Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
+
+ _Hazlitt._
+
+
+436.
+
+When anyone is modest, not after praise, but after censure, then he
+is really so.
+
+ _Richter._
+
+
+437.
+
+Experience has always shown, and reason shows, that affairs which
+depend on many seldom succeed.
+
+ _Guicciardini._
+
+
+438.
+
+Give 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.[23] If thou desire to be held wise, be
+so wise as to hold thy tongue.
+
+ _Quarles._
+
+ [23] Cf. 221; also Metastasio:
+
+ Voce dal fuggita
+ Poi richiamar non vale;
+ Non si trattien lo strale
+ Quando dall' arco usci.
+
+ [The word that once escapes the tongue cannot be
+ recalled; the arrow cannot be detained which has once
+ sped from the bow.]
+
+
+439.
+
+The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no
+longer judged by their contemporaries.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+440.
+
+When 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.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+441.
+
+In 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.
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+
+442.
+
+To 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.[24]
+
+ _Panchatantra._
+
+ [24] Cf. Luke, X, 29, ff.
+
+
+443.
+
+Skill in advising others is easily attained by men; but to practise
+righteousness themselves is what only a few can succeed in doing.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+444.
+
+Hast thou not perfect excellence, 'tis best
+ To keep thy tongue in silence, for 'tis this
+Which shames a man; as lightness does attest
+ The nut is empty, nor of value is.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+445.
+
+Understand a man by his deeds and words; the impressions of others
+lead to false judgment.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+446.
+
+A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every
+gust of wind.
+
+ _Magha._
+
+
+447.
+
+There is no fire like passion; there is no shark like hatred; there
+is no snare like folly; there is no torrent like greed.
+
+ _Dhammapada._
+
+
+448.
+
+Commit a sin twice, and it will not seem to thee a sin.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+449.
+
+Liberality 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.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+450.
+
+Inquire about your neighbour before you build, and about your
+companions before you travel.
+
+ _Arabic._
+
+
+451.
+
+Though you may yourself abound in treasure, teach your son some
+handicraft; for a heavy purse of gold and silver may run to waste,
+but the purse of the artisan's industry can never get empty.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+452.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Plutarch._
+
+
+453.
+
+Rather skin a carcass for pay in the public streets than be idly
+dependent on charity.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+454.
+
+Knowledge produces mildness of speech; mildness of speech, a good
+character; a good character, wealth; wealth, if virtuous actions
+attend it, happiness.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+455.
+
+O 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
+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.
+
+ _Longfellow._
+
+
+456.
+
+Every gift, though small, is in reality great, if it be given with
+affection.[25]
+
+ _Philemon._
+
+ [25] See also 80.
+
+
+457.
+
+Good words, good deeds, and beautiful expressions
+A wise man ever culls from every quarter,
+E'en as a gleaner gathers ears of corn.
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+
+458.
+
+In 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.
+
+ _Aristotle._
+
+
+459.
+
+Heed not the flatterer's fulsome talk,
+ He from thee hopes some trifle to obtain;
+Thou wilt, shouldst thou his wishes baulk,
+ Ten hundred times as much of censure gain.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+460.
+
+By the fall of water-drops the pot is filled: such is the increase
+of riches, of knowledge, and of virtue.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+461.
+
+We 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.
+
+ _Seneca._
+
+
+462.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Carlyle._
+
+
+463.
+
+Law does not put the least restraint
+Upon our freedom, but maintain'st;
+Or, if it does, 'tis for our good,
+To give us freer latitude:
+For wholesome laws preserve us free,
+By stinting of our liberty.
+
+ _Butler._
+
+
+464.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+465.
+
+Even a blockhead may respect inspire,
+So long as he is suitably attired;
+A fool may gain esteem among the wise,
+So long as he has sense to hold his tongue.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+466.
+
+A 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.[26]
+
+ _Selden._
+
+ [26] See 406.
+
+
+467.
+
+Men's minds are generally ingenious in palliating guilt in
+themselves.
+
+ _Livy._
+
+
+468.
+
+Prosperity 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.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+469.
+
+Wickedness, 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 man is made captive with arms in his hand his
+shame is more excessive.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+470.
+
+He 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.
+
+ _Selden._
+
+
+471.
+
+Men 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.
+
+ _R. Chamberlain._
+
+
+472.
+
+Poverty is not dishonourable in itself, but only when it arises from
+idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
+
+ _Plutarch._
+
+
+473.
+
+Do 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.
+
+ _Bharavi._
+
+
+474.
+
+First think, and if thy thoughts approve thy will,
+Then speak, and after, what thou speak'st fulfil.
+
+ _Randolph._
+
+
+475.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Coleridge._
+
+
+476.
+
+Patience 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.
+
+ _Selden._
+
+
+477.
+
+Friendship throws a greater lustre on prosperity, while it lightens
+adversity by sharing in its griefs and troubles.
+
+ _Cicero._
+
+
+478.
+
+There 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; 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.
+
+ _Sir W. Raleigh, to his Son._
+
+
+479.
+
+Learning 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.
+
+ _R. Chamberlain._
+
+
+480.
+
+The greater part of mankind employ their first years to make their
+last miserable.
+
+ _La Bruyere._
+
+
+481.
+
+I hate the miser, whose unsocial breast
+Locks from the world his useless stores.
+Wealth by the bounteous only is enjoyed,
+Whose treasures, in diffusive good employed,
+The rich return of fame and friends procure,
+And 'gainst a sad reverse a safe retreat secure.
+
+ _Pindar._
+
+
+482.
+
+Wisdom 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, temperance, and justice; in a word, true virtue
+subsists with wisdom.
+
+ _Plato._
+
+
+483.
+
+If 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.
+
+ _Ausonius._
+
+
+484.
+
+'Tis those who reverence the old
+That are the men versed in the Faith;
+Worthy of praise while in this life,
+And happy in the life to come.
+
+ _Buddhist._
+
+
+485.
+
+Low-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.
+
+ _Bhartrihari._
+
+
+486.
+
+Those 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.
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+
+487.
+
+Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.
+
+ _Plato._
+
+
+488.
+
+A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.[27]
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+ [27] Cf. Pope, in his Epitaph on the poet Gay:
+
+ Of manners gentle, of affections mild;
+ In wit a man, simplicity, a child.
+
+
+489.
+
+If 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.
+
+ _Persian._
+
+
+490.
+
+A husband is the chief ornament of a wife, though she have no other
+ornament; but, though adorned, without a husband she has no
+ornaments.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+491.
+
+He 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.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+492.
+
+He that would build lastingly must lay his foundation low. The proud
+man, 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.
+
+ _Feltham._
+
+
+493.
+
+The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious
+ancestors is like a potato--the only good belonging to him is
+underground.
+
+ _Sir Thos. Overbury._
+
+
+494.
+
+When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be
+ridiculed out of it.
+
+ _L'Estrange._
+
+
+495.
+
+Women are ever in extremes, they are either better or worse than
+men.
+
+ _La Bruyere._
+
+
+496.
+
+An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured
+of his happiness.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+497.
+
+The man of worth is really great without being proud; the mean man
+is proud without being really great.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+498.
+
+Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right
+moment.
+
+ _La Bruyere._
+
+
+499.
+
+Outward perfection without inward goodness sets but the blacker dye
+on the mind's deformity.
+
+ _R. Chamberlain._
+
+
+500.
+
+As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so wise men falter not
+amidst blame or praise.
+
+ _Dhammapada._
+
+
+501.
+
+Of what avail is the praise or censure of the vulgar, who make a
+useless noise like a senseless crow in a forest?
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+
+502.
+
+Hark! here the sound of lute so sweet,
+And there the voice of wailing loud;
+Here scholars grave in conclave meet,
+There howls the brawling drunken crowd;
+Here, charming maidens full of glee,
+There, tottering, withered dames we see.
+Such light! Such shade! I cannot tell,
+If here we live in heaven or hell.
+
+ _Bhartrihari._
+
+
+503.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Longfellow._
+
+
+504.
+
+A man of little learning deems that little a great deal; a frog,
+never having seen the ocean, considers its well a great sea.
+
+ _Burmese._
+
+
+505.
+
+Trust 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.
+
+ _Firdausi._
+
+
+506.
+
+Labour 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.
+
+ _Sa'di._[28]
+
+ [28] See also 429, 453.
+
+
+507.
+
+Let every man sweep the snow from before his own doors, and not busy
+himself about the frost on his neighbour's tiles.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+508.
+
+With knowledge, say, what other wealth
+Can vie, which neither thieves by stealth
+Can take, nor kinsmen make their prey,
+Which, lavished, never wastes away.
+
+ _Sanskrit._
+
+
+509.
+
+Women's wealth is beauty, learning, that of men.
+
+ _Burmese._
+
+
+510.
+
+Prosperity 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?
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+511.
+
+Spare not, nor spend too much, be this thy care,
+Spare but to spend, and only spend to spare.
+Who spends too much may want, and so complain;
+But he spends best that spares to spend again.
+
+ _Randolph._
+
+
+512.
+
+Everything 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.
+
+ _Nakhshabi._
+
+
+513.
+
+The attribute most noble of the hand
+Is readiness in giving; of the head,
+Bending before a teacher; of the mouth,
+Veracious speaking; of a victor's arms,
+Undaunted valour; of the inner heart,
+Pureness the most unsullied; of the ears,
+Delight in hearing and receiving truth--These
+are adornments of high-minded men,
+Better than all the majesty of Empire.
+
+ _Bhartrihari._
+
+
+514.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Von Humboldt._
+
+
+515.
+
+Stupidity 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.
+
+ _Wieland._
+
+
+516.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Longfellow._
+
+
+517.
+
+Women 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."
+
+ _Hazlitt._
+
+
+518.
+
+Reprove not in their wrath incensed men,
+Good counsel comes clean out of season then;
+But when his fury is appeased and past,
+He will conceive his fault and mend at last:
+When he is cool and calm, then utter it;
+No man gives physic in the midst o' th' fit.
+
+ _Randolph._
+
+
+519.
+
+It is not flesh and blood, it is the heart, that makes fathers and
+sons.
+
+ _Schiller._
+
+
+520.
+
+Discontent 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.
+
+ _Feltham._
+
+
+521.
+
+We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and
+snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their
+sympathies.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+522.
+
+A 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.
+
+ _Addison._
+
+
+523.
+
+Happy the man who lives at home, making it his business to regulate
+his desires.
+
+ _La Fontaine._
+
+
+524.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Harrington._
+
+
+525.
+
+Envy 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."
+
+ _Feltham._
+
+
+526.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Hazlitt._
+
+
+527.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Wieland._
+
+
+528.
+
+Flattery may be considered as a mode of companionship, degrading but
+profitable to him who flatters.
+
+ _Theophrastus._
+
+
+529.
+
+Rich presents, though profusely given, Are not so dear to righteous
+Heaven As gifts by honest gains supplied, Though small, which faith
+hath sanctified.
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+
+530.
+
+To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow;
+Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow:
+ O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee;
+Make not too sure another breath to borrow.
+
+ _Omar Khayyam._
+
+
+531.
+
+Leave 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.
+
+ _Firdausi._
+
+
+532.
+
+Virtue beameth from a generous spirit as light from the moon, or as
+brilliancy from Jupiter.
+
+ _Nizami._
+
+
+533.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Burmese._
+
+
+534.
+
+Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing
+meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.
+
+ _Longfellow._
+
+
+535.
+
+If 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.
+
+ _Overbury._
+
+
+536.
+
+There 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.
+
+ _La Bruyere._
+
+
+537.
+
+Society 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.
+
+ _Hazlitt._
+
+
+538.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _Von Humboldt._
+
+
+539.
+
+Petrarch 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.
+
+ _Burton._
+
+
+540.
+
+The mother of the useful arts is necessity, that of the fine arts is
+luxury; for father the former have intellect, the latter, genius,
+which itself is a kind of luxury.
+
+ _Schopenhauer._
+
+
+541.
+
+The fool who knows his foolishness is wise so far, at least; but a
+fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed.
+
+ _Dhammapada._
+
+
+542.
+
+He who mixes with unclean things becomes unclean himself; he whose
+associations are pure becomes purer each day.
+
+ _Talmud._
+
+
+543.
+
+Heaven's gate is narrow and minute,[29]
+It cannot be perceived by foolish men,
+Blinded by vain illusions of the world.
+E'en the clear-sighted, who discern the way
+And seek to enter, find the portal barred
+And hard to be unlocked. Its massive bolts
+Are pride and passion, avarice and lust.
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+ [29] Cf. Matt. VII, 14.
+
+
+544.
+
+Eschew that friend, if thou art wise, who consorts with thy enemies.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+545.
+
+Who can tell
+Men's hearts? The purest comprehend
+Such contradictions, and can blend
+The force to bear, the power to feel,
+The tender bud, the tempered steel.
+
+ _Hindu Drama._
+
+
+546.
+
+Whosoever hath not knowledge, and benevolence, and piety knoweth
+nothing of reality, and dwelleth only in semblance.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+547.
+
+If thou shouldst find thy friend in the wrong reprove him secretly,
+but in the presence of company praise him.
+
+ _Arabic._
+
+
+548.
+
+Modesty is attended with profit, arrogance brings on destruction.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+549.
+
+The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is
+quiet.
+
+ _Richter._
+
+
+550.
+
+Is 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 the reason of the reasoning, and the folly of
+the foolish.
+
+ _Isaac D'Israeli._
+
+
+551.
+
+Vulgar 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.
+
+ _Hazlitt._
+
+
+552.
+
+Lament not Fortune's mutability,
+And seize her fickle favours ere they flee;
+ If others never mourned departed bliss,
+How should a turn of Fortune come to thee?
+
+ _Omar Khayyam._
+
+
+553.
+
+Harsh 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.
+
+ _R. Chamberlain._
+
+
+554.
+
+There 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?
+
+ _L'Estrange._
+
+
+555.
+
+All wit and fancy, like a diamond,
+The more exact and curious 'tis ground,
+Is forced for every carat to abate
+As much of value as it wants in weight.
+
+ _Butler._
+
+
+556.
+
+Listen, if you would learn; be silent, if you would be safe.
+
+ _Arabic._
+
+
+557.
+
+All such distinctions as tend to set the orders of the state at a
+distance from each other are equally subversive of liberty and
+concord.
+
+ _Livy._
+
+
+558.
+
+No 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.
+
+ _Selden._
+
+
+559.
+
+Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their
+plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of
+the gods.
+
+ _Herodotus._
+
+
+560.
+
+Whosoever lends a greedy ear to a slanderous report is either
+himself of a radically bad disposition or a mere child in sense.
+
+ _Menander._
+
+
+561.
+
+A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house
+with a too-ponderous roof.
+
+ _R. Chamberlain._
+
+
+562.
+
+A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or
+dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.
+
+ _Hazlitt._
+
+
+563.
+
+Eminent positions make eminent men greater and little men less.
+
+ _La Bruyere._
+
+
+564.
+
+Scratch 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.
+
+ _Arabic._
+
+
+565.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Cervantes._
+
+
+566.
+
+No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at
+the good fortune of a child.
+
+ _Richter._
+
+
+567.
+
+Want and sorrow are the gifts which folly earns for itself.
+
+ _Schubert._
+
+
+568.
+
+In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme
+excellence is simplicity.
+
+ _Longfellow._
+
+
+569.
+
+Those who cause dissensions in order to injure other people are
+preparing pitfalls for their own ruin.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+570.
+
+Such deeds as thou with fear and grief
+Wouldst, on a sick-bed laid, recall,
+In youth and health eschew them all,
+Remembering life is frail and brief.
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+
+571.
+
+A man should not keep company with one whose character, family, and
+abode are unknown.
+
+ _Panchatantra._
+
+
+572.
+
+Sit not down to the table before thy stomach is empty, and rise
+before thou hast filled it.
+
+ _Arabic._
+
+
+573.
+
+If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.
+
+ _Quarles._
+
+
+574.
+
+In all companies there are more fools than wise men, and the greater
+part always gets the better of the wiser.
+
+ _Rabelais._
+
+
+575.
+
+Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in
+the stormy billows of the world.
+
+ _Goethe._
+
+
+576.
+
+No one ought to despond in adverse circumstances, for they may turn
+out to be the cause of good to us.[30]
+
+ _Menander._
+
+ [30] Cf. Job V, 17; Heb. XII, 6.
+
+
+577.
+
+The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may
+point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.
+
+ _Bhartrihari._
+
+
+578.
+
+A man should never despise himself, for brilliant success never
+attends on the man who is contemned by himself.
+
+ _Mahabharata._
+
+
+579.
+
+It 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.
+
+ _La Bruyere._
+
+
+580.
+
+The man of first rate excellence is virtuous in spite of
+instruction; he of the middle class is so after instruction; the
+lowest order of men are vicious in spite of instruction.
+
+ _Chinese._
+
+
+581.
+
+Not to attend at the door of the wealthy, and not to use the voice
+of petition--these constitute the best life of a man.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+582.
+
+What 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.
+
+ _Schopenhauer._
+
+
+583.
+
+Comprehensive 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, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
+
+ _George Eliot._
+
+
+584.
+
+The 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.
+
+ _Sa'di._
+
+
+585.
+
+Success 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.
+
+ _Bharavi._
+
+
+586.
+
+A feverish display of over-zeal,
+At the first outset, is an obstacle
+To all success; water, however cold,
+Will penetrate the ground by slow degrees.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+587.
+
+Treat no one with disdain; with patience bear
+Reviling language; with an angry man
+Be never angry; blessings give for curses.[31]
+
+ _Manu._
+
+ [31] Cf. Matt. V, II, 44.
+
+
+588.
+
+E'en as a traveller, meeting with the shade
+Of some o'erhanging tree, awhile reposes,
+Then leaves its shelter to pursue his way,
+So men meet friends, then part with them for ever.
+
+ _Hitopadesa._
+
+
+589.
+
+Single is every living creature born,
+Single he passes to another world,
+Single he eats the fruit of evil deeds,
+Single, the fruit of good; and when he leaves
+His body, like a log or heap of clay,
+Upon the ground, his kinsmen walk away:
+Virtue alone stays by him at the tomb,
+And bears him through the dreary, trackless gloom.
+
+ _Manu._
+
+
+
+
+INDEX.
+
+
+Abilities, 17.
+
+Absent friend, 496.
+
+Abuse of the great, 398.
+
+Actions to be avoided, 570.
+
+Actor, man an, 37.
+
+Admonition, friendly, 553.
+
+Advance step by step, 131.
+
+Adversity, 8, 30, 57, 78, 175, 184, 185, 330, 366, 393, 477,
+ 576, 577.
+
+Advice, 82, 172, 193, 443.
+
+Affectation, 87.
+
+Age should be indulgent, 464.
+
+Age, reverence for, 484.
+
+Agreeableness, 258, 296.
+
+Alms-giving, pride in, 318.
+
+Ambition, petty, 165.
+
+Amusements necessary, 111.
+
+Ancestry, boast of, 239, 240, 385, 395, 493.
+
+Angel, brute, man, 199.
+
+Anger, 117, 119, 130.
+
+Angry man, 518, 587.
+
+Annoyances, 387.
+
+Anxiety, needless, 298.
+
+Apparel, 418.
+
+Arrogance, 267.
+
+Arts, mothers of the, 540.
+
+Associates to be avoided, 571.
+
+Associates, wicked, 215.
+
+Associations, 542.
+
+Attributes of hand, head, etc., 513.
+
+Authority, 151, 452, 561.
+
+Avarice, 38, 310, 364, 382, 481.
+
+
+Bad men, 15, 351.
+
+Beauty, 100, 179, 295, 565.
+
+Beginning, etc., 383.
+
+Behaviour, 430.
+
+Beloved, best, 406.
+
+Beneficence, 4, 5, 191, 485.
+
+Benefits, 312, 345.
+
+"Bless those that curse you," 587.
+
+Blockhead in fine clothes, 465.
+
+Blockhead, lively, 562.
+
+Boastfulness, 248.
+
+Bodily and mental qualities, 204.
+
+Body, the soul's tent, 272.
+
+Books, 96, 195, 196, 197, 252, 283, 550.
+
+Bores, 579.
+
+Borrowing, 429.
+
+Braying men, 554.
+
+Business, do your own, 564.
+
+
+Calmness, 361.
+
+Capacities of men, 32.
+
+Caution in changing, 131.
+
+Character, portraying, 160.
+
+Character, test of men, 109.
+
+Charity, 94.
+
+Cheerfulness, 302, 391.
+
+Children, 379.
+
+Circumstances, 67.
+
+Clever men, 86.
+
+Companions, 450.
+
+Conduct, best, 214.
+
+Confidence, 268.
+
+Consolation, 346.
+
+Constancy of friends, 366.
+
+Contemporaries' approval, 156.
+
+Contentment, 10, 52, 101, 135, 334, 471, 538.
+
+Contrasts in life, 502.
+
+Controversy with ignorant men, 584.
+
+Conversation, 71.
+
+
+Daily cares and duties, 503.
+
+Dangers reconcile foes, 274.
+
+Death, 26, 138, 461.
+
+Deception, 243.
+
+Deeds and words, 445.
+
+Delusions, 441.
+
+Deportment, 206.
+
+Derision of superiority, 521.
+
+Designs, 315, 405, 466.
+
+Difficulties, 425.
+
+Diligence, 189, 428.
+
+Discontent, 222, 520.
+
+Distinctions, invidious, 557.
+
+"Do unto others," etc., 372.
+
+Doctrine entering the ear only, 285.
+
+Dog's tail, 373.
+
+Doubt, 7.
+
+Dreams, 388, 389.
+
+Dull minds, 278.
+
+
+Ears and tongue, 273.
+
+Eat moderately, 572.
+
+Education and morals, 348.
+
+Eminence, 563.
+
+Employment, want of, 11.
+
+Empty things, 410.
+
+Endurance, 582.
+
+Energy, 95, 149.
+
+Enjoyments, alloyed, 352, 353.
+
+Envy, 124, 168, 271, 343, 375, 525.
+
+Equality of men, 234.
+
+Errors in judgment, 64.
+
+Evil men reformed, 68.
+
+Evil not to be returned, 413.
+
+Evil plotters, 162, 569.
+
+Evil speaking, 321.
+
+Excellence and mediocrity, 60.
+
+Exertion, 134, 263, 468, 510.
+
+Expenditure, 176, 247, 511.
+
+Experience, 36.
+
+
+Faculties of men limited, 120.
+
+Faith not to be forced, 408.
+
+Falsehood, 341.
+
+Fame of good and evil deeds, 277.
+
+Fame, worldly, 34, 158.
+
+Familiarity with the great, 255.
+
+Fancy, charm of, 514.
+
+Fashions, old, despised, 169.
+
+Fate and wishes, 376.
+
+Fate and youth, 122.
+
+Fathers and sons, 519.
+
+Faults, 20, 39, 41, 198, 219, 269, 347.
+
+Favours, conferring, 317.
+
+Fear, 339.
+
+Feeble characters, 446.
+
+Feeling, sudden transitions of, 127.
+
+Flattery, 13, 250, 251, 323, 459, 528.
+
+Foes and friends, 84.
+
+Foibles, men's, 322.
+
+Follies, 97.
+
+Folly's reward, 567.
+
+Fools, 108, 166, 181, 265, 415, 465, 541, 561, 574.
+
+Forgiveness, 329, 344.
+
+Fortune, 56, 173, 233, 249, 262, 276, 536, 552.
+
+Friends, 16, 98, 174, 432, 458, 478, 496, 544, 547, 588.
+
+Friendship, 24, 116, 309, 330, 346, 477.
+
+Frugality, 316.
+
+
+Generosity, 140.
+
+Genius dull in society, 534.
+
+Gifts, 80, 456, 529.
+
+Giving, manner of, 354, 483.
+
+God, the best friend, 79.
+
+Gold beautifies, 422, 427.
+
+Golden mean, 21.
+
+Good, doing, 110, 136, 137, 145, 209.
+
+Good for evil, 25, 311.
+
+Good and bad men falling, 297.
+
+Good man, 15, 288.
+
+Good man's intellect, 89.
+
+Good name, 29, 289.
+
+Goodness, 73, 153, 238.
+
+Good son, 16.
+
+Good wife, 16.
+
+Good words, 457.
+
+Good work undone, 35.
+
+Gratitude, 317.
+
+Great men, intercourse with, 177.
+
+Great souls, qualities of, 78.
+
+Greed, 447.
+
+Grief, useless, 207, 324.
+
+Griefs, secret, 300, 378, 394.
+
+Grossness, 303.
+
+Guilty men, 386.
+
+
+Handicraft, 451.
+
+Happiness, 58, 66, 70, 187, 253, 262, 311, 337, 363, 367, 406,
+ 523.
+
+Harsh words, 192.
+
+Hatred, 123, 447, 549.
+
+Health, 52.
+
+Heart, 62, 79, 129, 132, 545.
+
+Hearts and beauty, 179.
+
+Heaven's gate, 543.
+
+Hero, 406.
+
+Hoary head, 416.
+
+Home, 253, 406, 523.
+
+Humility, 150, 157.
+
+Husband, 161, 401, 490.
+
+Hypocrisy, 403.
+
+
+Idleness, 424.
+
+Ignorance, 103, 198, 199, 290, 301, 355, 431.
+
+Imitativeness, 404.
+
+Impudence, 374.
+
+Increase, by degrees, 460.
+
+Independence, 581.
+
+Indiscreet men, 85.
+
+Inherent badness, 373.
+
+Injury rebounds, 126.
+
+Injury unjustifiable, 407, 413.
+
+Insignificance, man's individual, 308.
+
+Instruction, 580.
+
+Irresolution, 294.
+
+
+Judge things by their merit, 196.
+
+Judgments, how formed, 259.
+
+
+Kindness, 4, 5, 54, 92, 129, 305, 306, 311, 344.
+
+Kinsmen and strangers, 91.
+
+Knowledge, 3, 7, 43, 55, 201, 205, 218, 225, 286, 307, 355,
+ 396, 397, 416, 454, 508, 546.
+
+
+Labour, 275, 429, 453, 506.
+
+Laughter, 47, 163, 186.
+
+Law, 463.
+
+Law and physic, 167.
+
+Learning, 40, 43, 143, 342, 449, 479, 491, 504, 509.
+
+Liars, 246.
+
+Liberality, 93, 94, 140, 241, 449, 498.
+
+Life, 23, 83, 125, 133, 144, 235, 287, 326, 365, 461, 502,
+ 535, 539.
+
+Loquacity, 182, 301, 359, 583.
+
+Loss, greatest, 406.
+
+Losses half felt, 216.
+
+Love, 314.
+
+Low-minded men, 485.
+
+
+Man, an actor, 37.
+
+Man an intellectual animal, 128.
+
+Mankind, knowledge of, 369.
+
+"Many cooks," etc., 437.
+
+Marriage, 333.
+
+Mean, the golden, 21.
+
+Mediocrity and excellence, 60.
+
+Memory, 414.
+
+Men, difficult to know, 33.
+
+Men like ships, 409.
+
+Mental faculties, limited, 120.
+
+Mental offspring, 417.
+
+Mental and bodily qualifications, 204.
+
+Merit, innate, 433.
+
+Merit, true and false, 242.
+
+Merit without praise, 104.
+
+Middling fortune, 536.
+
+Mind, 115, 226, 229, 270, 279.
+
+Misanthropy, 336.
+
+Miser, 481.
+
+Misery, 357.
+
+Mistakes, 72.
+
+Modesty, 159, 282, 436, 522, 548.
+
+Money, 188, 190, 368, 573.
+
+Mothers' greatest joy, 566.
+
+Morning, lesson of the, 139.
+
+
+Nature praises the Creator, 512.
+
+Neighbour, every man one's, 442.
+
+Neighbours and companions, 450.
+
+Night, silence of, 266.
+
+Noble birth, 434.
+
+Noble-minded men, 485.
+
+Novel-reading, 475.
+
+
+Obliging others, 426.
+
+Old age, 439, 484.
+
+Old and new things, 196.
+
+Old man, 65.
+
+Opportunities, 185, 420.
+
+Oppression, 191.
+
+Origin, one common, 9.
+
+Outward perfection, 499.
+
+
+Parents' affection, 154.
+
+Parsimony, 316.
+
+Passionate man, 74.
+
+Passions, 1, 2, 119, 280, 447.
+
+Past, present and future, 326.
+
+Patience, 42, 118, 135, 185, 207, 476.
+
+Peace, greatest, 406.
+
+Personal troubles, 31.
+
+Personation, 102.
+
+Physic and law, 167.
+
+"Physician, heal thyself," 421.
+
+Pity, 124.
+
+Place, things out of, 237.
+
+Plagiarism, 96.
+
+Plans, miscarried, 327.
+
+Pleasure, 337.
+
+Pleasure and pain, 353.
+
+Pleasure in others' welfare, 350.
+
+Poesy, 260.
+
+Poetaster, 217.
+
+Potter and clay, 377.
+
+Popular opinion, 76.
+
+Poverty, 44, 105, 121, 208, 245, 410, 422, 472.
+
+Praise and censure, 88, 104, 500, 501.
+
+Praise, how to merit, 130.
+
+Prayer, universal, 19.
+
+Prefaces to books, 550.
+
+Prejudices, 551.
+
+Premature actions, 264.
+
+Premature death, 122.
+
+Present affairs, 462.
+
+Present good despised, 213.
+
+Presents, 80, 456, 529.
+
+Pretence, 102.
+
+Pride, 107, 157, 159, 291, 338, 492, 497.
+
+Pride in religious works, 318.
+
+Profitable thing, 406.
+
+Progress, 487.
+
+Projects, 315, 405, 466.
+
+Promises, broken, 28.
+
+Prosperity, 10, 30, 56, 93, 175, 224, 350, 393, 477.
+
+Providence, 320.
+
+Purpose without power, 146.
+
+Pursuits, 203.
+
+
+Rabble among gentry, 358.
+
+Rashness, 473, 559.
+
+Reality, 546.
+
+Reason, 14, 299, 559.
+
+Reckless life reformed, 68.
+
+Regrets, useless, 298, 486.
+
+Remorse, 220.
+
+Reprehension, 75.
+
+Reproof, harsh, 553.
+
+Resignation, 538.
+
+Resolution, 12, 263.
+
+Respect, hatred, pity, 123.
+
+Restraint, 141.
+
+Reticence, 18, 586.
+
+Reviling to be borne, 587.
+
+Riches, 148, 187, 210, 281, 400, 401, 470, 471, 536.
+
+Ridiculous, cause of the, 292.
+
+Righteousness, 443.
+
+Romances, 419.
+
+
+Salvation, 257.
+
+Sea-margins of thought, 516.
+
+Secrets, 99, 221, 288, 489, 505.
+
+Seeming to be more than one is, 390.
+
+Self-conceit, 112.
+
+Self-conquest, 223.
+
+Self-contemning, 578.
+
+Self-control, 280.
+
+Self-depreciation, 282.
+
+Self-dissatisfaction, 46.
+
+Self-judging, 524.
+
+Self-knowledge, 152, 261.
+
+Self-love, 142, 370.
+
+Self-palliation, 467.
+
+Self-praises, 412.
+
+Self-reliance, 115.
+
+Self-seeking men, 338.
+
+Self-valuation, 328.
+
+Sensuality, 423.
+
+Serve from lowest station upwards, 335.
+
+Shadows of the mind, 226.
+
+Shame, 90, 256, 374.
+
+Silence, 22, 180, 244, 254, 438, 444, 465, 474, 556.
+
+Simpletons, bores, 579.
+
+Simplicity, 435, 488, 568.
+
+Sin, repeated, 170, 448.
+
+Single are we born, etc., 589.
+
+Slander, 69, 412, 560.
+
+Smatterers, 384.
+
+Society, 27, 258, 537.
+
+Son, good, 16.
+
+Sorrows, 6, 50, 61, 185, 381.
+
+Sparing and spending, 511.
+
+Speech, 180, 254, 438, 474.
+
+Strangers and kinsmen, 91.
+
+Stupidity, 515.
+
+Style in writing, 284.
+
+Subtle and dull minds, 278.
+
+Subtle-witted men, 278.
+
+Success, 149, 183, 578, 583.
+
+Successes, unexpected, 53.
+
+Suffering, 147.
+
+Superiority, 57, 527.
+
+Superstition, 356.
+
+Sweep your own doorstep, 507.
+
+Sympathy, 371.
+
+
+Taciturnity, 244, 526, 583.
+
+Talents and character, 576.
+
+Talkativeness, 182, 301, 359, 583.
+
+Temperance, 380.
+
+Temptation, 106.
+
+Things good and bad, 59.
+
+Things long desired, 392.
+
+Things to be guarded against, 155.
+
+Things universally valued, 399.
+
+Think before speaking, 474.
+
+Thorns and roses, 331.
+
+Thought, 114, 402, 516.
+
+Time, 79, 113, 325, 360.
+
+Titles of books, 283.
+
+To-day and to-morrow, 530, 531.
+
+Toil and pleasure, 349.
+
+Tongue and ears, 273.
+
+Trials, 51.
+
+Troubles, 202.
+
+Truth, lovers of, 246.
+
+Truth and severity, 332.
+
+
+Undertakings of the careless, 313.
+
+Universe, lessons of the, 48.
+
+
+Vacant mind, 229.
+
+Valour, 449.
+
+Vanity, cure of, 494.
+
+Vaticination, 462.
+
+Vices, 304, 340.
+
+Vicissitudes, 584.
+
+Virtue, 532, 589.
+
+Vociferation, 361.
+
+Voice, the human, 455.
+
+
+Weak and strong men, 236.
+
+Wealth, 77, 115, 148, 187, 210, 267, 400, 440, 449.
+
+Wicked associates, 215.
+
+Wicked, unstable, 411.
+
+Wickedness, odious in the learned, 469.
+
+Wife, 16, 161, 194, 200, 231, 232, 401, 406.
+
+Wisdom, 171, 482, 584.
+
+Wise men, 131, 227, 265, 533, 584.
+
+Wish, father to the thought, 212.
+
+Wishes, vain, 486.
+
+Wishes and powers, 293.
+
+Wit and fancy, 555.
+
+Wit and wisdom, 362, 558.
+
+Woman, 45, 164, 178, 230, 495, 509, 517.
+
+Words cannot be recalled, 228.
+
+Words, harsh, 192.
+
+Words without deeds, 211.
+
+World, a beautiful book, 49.
+
+Worldly fame and pleasure, 34, 158.
+
+Worst thing, 406.
+
+Wretched not to be mocked, 63.
+
+Writings, like dishes, books, like beauty, 96.
+
+
+Years, early, misspent, 480.
+
+Youth, negligence in, 81.
+
+Youth returns not, 319.
+
+
+Zeal, excessive, 586.
+
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+ In the original, all letters a, i, u had macrons instead of
+ accents, except for the word Chandalas, which appears as printed.
+
+ Item 54: Mahhabharata _changed to_ Mahabharata
+ Item 92: Mahabahrata _changed to_ Mahabharata
+ Item 115: Depend not an _changed to_ Depend not on
+ Item 306: Chandalas' _changed to_ Chandalas'
+ Item 434: Goldini _changed to_ Goldoni
+
+
+
+
+
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