Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. |
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it |
Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ·That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns. |
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. |
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. |
Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it |
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasur |
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. |
As long as you live, keep learning how to live. |
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit. |
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. |
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. |
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity |
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. |
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. |