Menander.
375.
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.
Plutarch.
376.
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
Seneca.
377.
I do remember stopping by the way, To watch a potter thumping his wet clay; And with its all-obliterated tongue It murmured, "Gently, brother, gently, pray!"
Omar Khayyám.
378.
If you only knew the evils which others suffer, you would willingly submit to those which you now bear.
Philemon.
379.
Children form a bond of union than which the human heart finds none more enduring.
Livy.
380.
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.
Juvenal.
381.
To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another's we soon cease to grieve.
Pindar.
382.
Can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our journey's end, we should lay in the more provision for it?
Cicero.
383.
Set about whatever you intend to do; the beginning is half the battle.
Ausonius.
384.
All smatterers are more brisk and pert Than those who understand an art; As little sparkles shine more bright Than glowing coals that gave them light.
Butler.
385.
No prince, how great soever, begets his predecessors, and the noblest rivers are not navigable to the fountain.
A. Marvell.
386.
The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.
Epicurus.
387.
In everything you will find annoyances, but you ought to consider whether the advantages do not predominate.
Menander.
388.
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
Herodotus.
389.
Sleeping, we image what awake we wish; Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.[20]
Theocritus.
[20] Cf. Arab proverb: "The dream of the cat is always about mice."
390.
A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.
Hazlitt.
391.
There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life.
Richter.
392.
From things which have been obtained after having been long desired men almost never derive the pleasure and delight which they had anticipated.
Guicciardini.
393.
Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.
Quarles.
394.
