f silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools.
You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think.
Doubt cannot override a certainty.
Do not decide that someone is good until you see how he
or she acts at home.
Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without
law and order.
These things are good in little measure and evil in large:
yeast, salt and hesitation.
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead
among foxes.
Examine the contents, not the bottle.
Don’t use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and
produce oblivion.
Life is so short we must move very slowly.
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money.
For the unlearned, old age is winter, for the learned
it is the season of the harvest.
More people die from over-eating than from undernourishment.
Breed not a savage dog, nor permit a loose stairway.
Who is a hero? He who conquers his urges.
He that gives should not remember, he that receives should
not forget.
A person who seeks help for a friend, while needy himself,
will be answered first.
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it
and whispers, grow, grow.
Do not appease thy fellow in his hour of anger, do not
comfort him while the dead is still laid, do not question him in the hour of his vow; and do not
strive to see him in his hour of misfortune.
Make your books your companions
Ambition destroys its possessor.
Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities
of life are more than all ceremonies.
Despise no man and consider nothing impossible, for there
is no man who does not have his hour and there is no thing that does not have its place. |
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