Post #2885

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
—Charles Caleb Colton

Post #2884

A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.
—Sophocles

Post #2883

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
—Miguel de Cervantes

Post #2882

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
—Voltaire

Post #2881

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Post #2880

Tolerance does not mark the progress of religion. It is the fatal sign of its decline.
—Isidore van Cleef

Post #2879

Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door opena..
—Seneca

Post #2878

Who knows whether the gods will add to-morrow to the present hour?
—Horace

Post #2877

To-morrow thou wilt live, didst thou say, Posthumus? to-day is too late; he is the wise man who lived yesterday.
—Martial

Post #2876

While thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.
—William Shakespeare

Post #2875

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?
—Benjamin Franklin

Post #2874

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

—Benjamin Franklin

Post #2873

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?
—Jean Jacques Rousseau

Post #2872

The great world spins forever down the ringing grooves of change.
—Alfred Lord Tennyson

Post #2871

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens, must be a link in a chain.
—Benjamin Disraeli