Post #2437

Man is certainly stark mad ; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
—Michel de Montaigne

Post #2436

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
—Socrates

Post #2435

The price of wisdom is above rubies.
—The Bible

Post #2434

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
—Sir W. Scott

Post #2433

Rage is mental imbecility.
—Hosea Ballou

Post #2432

Conscience is the voice of God in the soul.
—James H. Aughey 

Post #2431

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and all else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
—Confucius

Post #2430

The soul shares not the body's rest.
—Charles Maturin

Post #2429

No one becomes guilty by fate.
—Seneca

Post #2428

In the world there are only two ways of raising one's self, either by one's own industry or by the weakness of others.

—Jean de La Bruyère

Post #2427

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
—Publius Syrus

Post #2426

Let every eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.
—William Shakespeare

Post #2425

Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application.
—James Ellis

Post #2424

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.
—Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury

Post #2423

If it is a pleasure to be envied and shot at, to be maligned standing and to be despised falling, then it is a pleasure to be great.
—Robert South

Post #2422

Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
— Titus Livy

Post #2421

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
—Alexander Pope

Post #2420

Music is the fourth great material want of our natures, — first food, then raiment, then shelter, then music.
—Christian Nestell Bovee

Post #2419

 Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.
—George Crabbe

Post #2418

A man in earnest finds means, or, if he cannot find, creates them.
—William Ellery Channing

Post #2417

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.
—Napoleon Bonaparte

Post #2416

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxury.
—Cicero