“For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.”
“Many a maiden,With white feet glancing light as air,Made happy music through the gloom.”
“There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.”
“I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.”
“Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.”
“All men know their children mean more than life.”
“Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.”
“Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.”
“Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.”
“I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.”
“The wise with hope support the pains of life.”
“What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.”
“Silence is true wisdom's best reply.”
“In life, the worst disasters come from passion.”
“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
“When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.”
“If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich.”
“O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.”
“There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.”
“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
“The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.”
“Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.”
“It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.”
“In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.”
“In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.”
