Greed, lust, fear, anger, misfortune, unhappiness, all Are derived from foolishness. Thus, foolishness is the greatest of poisons.
Greed, lust, fear, anger, misfortune, unhappiness, all Are derived from foolishness. Thus, foolishness is the greatest of poisons.
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real but on awaking it vanishes.
There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
A mans venom poisons himself more than his victim.
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great c. 135-63 B. C. had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.
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