Post #2545

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.
—J.C. Hare

Post #2544

Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?
—Mayer Rothschild

Post #2543

A man advanced in years, that thinks fit to look back upon his former life, and call that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in his infancy.
—Sir Richard Steele

Post #2542

Health is the Soul that animates all Enjoyments of Life, which fade and are tasteless, if not dead, without it.
—Sir William Temple

Post #2541

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
—Charles Caleb Colton

Post #2540

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.
—Michel de Montaigne

Post #2539

He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly.
— J. C. and A. W. Hare

Post #2538

Calamity was ordained for man.
—Sir Sir William Davenant

Post #2537

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.
—Dr. John Tillotson

Post #2536

I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance.
—William Paley

Post #2535

Man should be ever better than he seems.

—Sir Aubrey de Vere

Post #2534

Think on thy sins.
—William Shakespeare

Post #2533

Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.
—H. W. Shaw

Post #2532

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person what ever he says has an enhanced value.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Post #2531

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.
—William Shakespeare

Post #2530

Words are good, But they are not the best. The best is not to be explained by words; the spirit in which we act is the great matter.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Post #2529

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.
—Epictetus

Post #2528

Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Post #2527

A Spartan, being asked why his people drank so little, replied: "That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us."
—Plutarch

Post #2526

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.
—Seneca

Post #2525

Trials teach us what we are.
—Charles Spurgeon

Post #2524

A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over.
—Francis Bacon