192.
A wound inflicted by arrows heals, a wood cut down by an axe grows, but harsh words are hateful--a wound inflicted by them does not heal. Arrows of different sorts can be extracted from the body, but a word-dart cannot be drawn out, for it is seated in the heart.
Mahábhárata.
193.
To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of chaff.
Hitopadesa.
194.
All the blessings of a household come through the wife, therefore should her husband honour her.
Talmud.
195.
Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
Goethe.
196.
All that is old is not therefore necessarily excellent; all that is new is not despicable on that account alone. Let what is really meritorious be pronounced so by the candid judge after due investigation; blockheads alone are influenced by the opinion of others.
Hindu Drama.
197.
One of the diseases of this age is the multitude of books. It is a thriftless and a thankless occupation, this writing of books: a man were better to sing in a cobbler's shop, for his pay is a penny a patch; but a book-writer, if he get sometimes a few commendations from the judicious, he shall be sure to reap a thousand reproaches from the malicious.
Barnaby Rich.
198.
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
Goethe.
199.
The angel grows up in divine knowledge, the brute, in savage ignorance, and the son of man stands hesitating between the two.
Persian.
200.
She is a wife who is notable in her house; she is a wife who beareth children; she is a wife whose husband is as her life; she is a wife who is obedient to her lord. The wife is half the man; a wife is man's dearest friend; a wife is the source of his religion, his worldly profit, and his love. He who hath a wife maketh offerings in his house. Those who have wives are blest with good fortune. Wives are friends, who, by their kind and gentle speech, soothe you in your retirement. In your distresses they are as mothers, and they are refreshment to those who are travellers in the rugged paths of life.
Mahábhárata.
201.
He that is ambitious of fame destroys it. He that increaseth not his knowledge diminishes it. He that uses the crown of learning as an instrument of gain will pass away.
Talmud.
202.
While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities, while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives.
Goldsmith.
203.
It is impossible for those who are engaged in low and grovelling pursuits to entertain noble and generous sentiments. Their thoughts must always necessarily be somewhat similar to their employments.
Demosthenes.
204.
The interval is immense between corporeal qualifications and sciences: the body in a moment is extinct, but knowledge endureth to the end of time.
Hitopadesa.
205.
If thou lackest knowledge, what hast thou then acquired? Hast thou acquired knowledge, what else dost thou want?
Talmud.
206.
Be modest and simple in your deportment, and treat with indifference whatever lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race; obey God.
Marcus Aurelius.
207.
Bootless grief hurts a man's self, but patience makes a jest of an injury.
