I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
Nobody sees a flower really,it is so small. We haven't time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.
Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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