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does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that
is done rightly.
Goethe.
336.
Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and,
thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and
then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly
from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates
the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.
Plato.
337.
Pleasure, most often delusive, may be born of delusion. Pleasure, herself a sorceress, may pitch her tents on
enchanted ground. But happiness (or, to use a more accurate and comprehensive term, solid well-being) can
be built on virtue alone, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.
Coleridge.
338.
Entangled in a hundred worldly snares, Self-seeking men, by ignorance deluded, Strive by unrighteous means
to pile up riches. Then, in their self-complacency, they say, "This acquisition I have made to-day, That will I
gain to-morrow, so much pelf Is hoarded up already, so much more Remains that I have yet to treasure up.
This enemy I have destroyed, him also, And others in their turn, I will despatch. I am a lord; I will enjoy
myself; I'm wealthy, noble, strong, successful, happy; I'm absolutely perfect; no one else In all the world can
be compared to me. Now will I offer up a sacrifice, Give gifts with lavish hand, and be triumphant." Such
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men, befooled by endless vain conceits, Caught in the meshes of the world's illusion, Immersed in sensuality,
descend Down to the foulest hell of unclean spirits.[16]
Mahábhárata.
[16] Cf. Luke, XII, 17-20; see also 291.
339.
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.
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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.
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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.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds; and they must be tolerated in an admixture of it in some trifling or
enthusiastic shape or other; else you will deprive weak minds of a resource found necessary to the strongest.
Burke.
357.
Fair words without good deeds to a man in misery are like a saddle of gold clapped upon a galled horse.
Chamberlain.
358.
There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves
with the same wheel as these men--in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild
their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.
Sir Thomas Browne.
359.
It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is
brought to the water-side.
Richter.
360.
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Our time is like our money; when we change a guinea the shillings escape as things of small account; when
we break a day by idleness in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our eyes.
Sir Walter Scott.
361.
Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
Lavater.
362.
Wit and wisdom differ. Wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is in bringing about ends.
Selden.
363.
Real and solid happiness springs from moderation.
Goethe.
364.
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