Book of Wise Sayings | Page 4

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.
Mahábhárata.
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.
Firdausí.
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.
Firdausí.
62.
If thy garments be clean and thy heart be foul, thou needest no key to the door of hell.
Sa'dí.
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'dí.
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