566
No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.
Richter.
567
Want and sorrow are the gifts which folly earns for itself.
Schubert.
568
In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Longfellow.
569
Those who cause dissensions in order to injure other people are preparing pitfalls for their own ruin.
Chinese.
570
Such deeds as thou with fear and grief
Wouldst, on a sick-bed laid, recall,
In youth and health eschew them all,
Remembering life is frail and brief.
Mahābhārata.
571
A man should not keep company with one whose character, family, and abode are unknown.
Panchatantra.
572
Sit not down to the table before thy stomach is empty, and rise before thou hast filled it.
Arabic.
573
If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.
Quarles.
574
In all companies there are more fools than wise men, and the greater part always gets the better of the wiser.
Rabelais.
575
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe.
576
No one ought to despond in adverse circumstances, for they may turn out to be the cause of good to us.*
Menander.
Notes
* Cf. Job V, 17; Heb. XII, 6.