421
Among wonderful things is a sore-eyed man who is an oculist.
Arabic.
422
Gold gives the appearance of beauty even to ugliness; but everything becomes frightful with poverty.
Boileau.
423
When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.
R. Chamberlain.
424
Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.
Bhartrihari.
425
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Goethe.
426
We must oblige everybody as much as we can; we have often need of assistance from those inferior to ourselves.
La Fontaine.
427
We magnify the wealthy man, though his parts be never so poor. The poor man we despise, be he never so well qualified. Gold is the coverlet of imperfections. It is the fool’s curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
Feltham.