Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny |
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. |
Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye. We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please. |
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. |
Paulus Aemilius, on taking command of the forces in Macedonia, and finding them talkative and impertinently busy, as though they were all commanders, issued out his orders that they should have only ready hands and keen swords, and leave the rest to |
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. |
Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only |
Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world with contempt; but a truly noble spirit appears greatest in distress; and then becomes more bright and c |
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. |
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world |
Reason speaks and feeling bites |
Rest: the sweet sauce of labor |
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. |
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. |
Socrates said, Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live |