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Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning..
The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!.
Our life is like th' unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer's cloudy days, Our riches fleet as swi….
A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay..
I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me..
Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds..
What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss? Fail….
Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies..
The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards..
Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass..
Neither rings, bright chains, nor bracelets, perfumes, flowers, nor well-trimmed hair, Grace a man like polished language, th' only jewel he should w….
There is no medicine to cure a fool!.
Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity..
Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface..
Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail..
The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the m….
For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end….
I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like sh….
Three courses open lie to wealth, to give, enjoy, or lose, Who shrinketh from the former two, perforce the third doth choose..
Those from whom we were born have long since departed, and those with whom we grew up exist only in memory. We, too, through the approach of death, b….
The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake on….