46
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
Hazlitt.
47
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Richter.
48
The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.
Dante.
49
This world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Goldoni.
50
Sorrows are like thunder-clouds: in the distance they look black, over our heads, hardly gray.
Richter.
51
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese.
52
Health is the greatest gift, contentedness the best riches.
Dhammapada.
53
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
Demosthenes.
54
Let none with scorn a suppliant meet,
Or from the door untended spurn
A dog; an outcast kindly treat;
And so thou shalt be blest in turn.
Mahābhārata.
55
Choose knowledge, if thou desirest a blessing from the Universal Provider; for the ignorant man cannot raise himself above the earth, and it is by knowledge that thou must render thy soul praiseworthy.
Firdausī.