There needs no other charm, nor conjuror, To raise infernal spirits up, but Fear, That makes men pull their horns in, like a snail, That's both a prisoner to itself and jail; Draws more fantastic shapes than in the grains Of knotted wood, in some men's crazy brains, When all the cocks they think they are, and bulls, Are only in the insides of their skulls.
Butler.
340.
He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration.
R. Chamberlain.
341.
The more weakness the more falsehood; strength goes straight: every cannon ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked.
Richter.
342.
Learning dissipates many doubts, and causes things otherwise invisible to be seen, and is the eye of everyone who is not absolutely blind.
Hitopadesa.
343.
Very distasteful is excessive fame To the sour palate of the envious mind, Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name, And hates the fortune that he ne'er shall find.
Pindar.
344.
A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part the kindness should begin on ours.
Tillotson.
345.
Time, which gnaws and diminishes all things else, augments and increases benefits, because a noble action of liberality done to a man of reason doth grow continually by his generously thinking of it and remembering it.
Rabelais.
346.
Were all thy fond endeavours vain To chase away the sufferer's smart, Still hover near, lest absence pain His lonely heart.
For friendship's tones have kindlier power Than odorous fruit, or nectared bowl, To soothe, in sorrow's languid hour, The sinking soul.
Sa'dí.
347.
The faults of others are easily perceived, but those of oneself are difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neighbour's faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides as a cheat hides the false dice from the gamester.
Dhammapada.
348.
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
Aristotle.
349.
Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.
Livy.
350.
Enjoy thou the prosperity of others, Although thyself unprosperous; noble men Take pleasure in their neighbours' happiness.
Mahábhárata.
351.
Neither live with a bad man nor be at enmity with him; even as if you take hold of glowing charcoal it will burn you, if you take hold of cold charcoal it will soil you.
Buddhist.
352.
In the sandal-tree are serpents, in the water lotus flowers, but crocodiles also; even virtues are marred by the vicious--in all enjoyments there is something which impairs our happiness.
Hitopadesa.
353.
There is no pleasure of life sprouting like a tree from one root but there is some pain joined to it; and again nature brings good out of evil.
Menander.
354.
The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself. There is a princely manner of giving and accepting.
Lavater.
355.
Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.
Carlyle.
356.
