From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
The poorest man would not part with health for money, But the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - live for it.
He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
There is a paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power But if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
Man is an embodied paradox, A bundle of contradictions.
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the heart of man for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.
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