Alas, for him who is gone and hath done no good work! The trumpet of march has sounded, and his load was not bound on.
Persian.
36.
Human experience, like the stern-lights of a ship at sea, illumines only the path which we have passed over.
Coleridge.
37.
Man is an actor who plays various parts: First comes a boy, then out a lover starts; His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar's rags; Then he's a merchant with full money-bags; Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean; At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.[5]
Bhartrihari.
[5] Cf. Shakspeare:
"All the world's a stage," etc.--As You Like It, Act II, sc. 7.
38.
Through avarice a man loses his understanding, and by his thirst for wealth he gives pain to the inhabitants of both worlds.
Hitopadesa.
39.
Men soon the faults of others learn, A few their virtues, too, find out; But is there one--I have a doubt-- Who can his own defects discern?
Sanskrit.
40.
In learning, age and youth go for nothing; the best informed take the precedence.
Chinese.
41.
Mention not a blemish which is thy own in detraction of a neighbour.
Talmud.
42.
Affairs succeed by patience, and he that is hasty falleth headlong.
Sa'dí.
43.
A man who has learnt little grows old like an ox: his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.
Dhammapada.
44.
Unsullied poverty is always happy, while impure wealth brings with it many sorrows.
Chinese.
45.
Both white and black acknowledge women's sway, So much the better and the wiser too, Deeming it most convenient to obey, Or possibly they might their folly rue.[6]
Persian.
[6] Cf. Pope:
Would men but follow what the sex advise, All things would prosper, all the world grow wise.
46.
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
Hazlitt.
47.
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Richter.
48.
The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.
Dante.
49.
This world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Goldoni.
50.
Sorrows are like thunder-clouds: in the distance they look black, over our heads, hardly gray.
Richter.
51.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese.
52.
Health is the greatest gift, contentedness the best riches.
Dhammapada.
53.
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
Demosthenes.
54.
Let none with scorn a suppliant meet, Or from the door untended spurn A dog; an outcast kindly treat; And so thou shalt be blest in turn.
Mahábhárata.
55.
Choose knowledge, if thou desirest a blessing from the Universal Provider; for the ignorant man cannot raise himself above the earth, and it is by knowledge that thou must render thy soul praiseworthy.
