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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.
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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.
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Eminent positions make eminent men greater and little men less.
La Bruyère.
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.
Mahábhárata.
571.
A man should not keep company with one whose character, family, and abode are unknown.
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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.
Mahábhárata.
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.
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La Bruyère.
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'dí.
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.
Bháravi.
586.
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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.
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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.
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