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

Post #2415

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.
—Samuel Johnson

Post #2414

Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.
—Plato

Post #2413

Man ought always to have something which he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will appear to him tiresome and void.
—Johann G. Seume

Post #2412

Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
—Joseph Joubert

Post #2411

Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death.

—John Greenleaf Whittier

Post #2410

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
—Samuel Johnson

Post #2409

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
—Sir P. Sidney

Post #2408

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
—Seneca