123
The best thing is to be respected, the next, is to be loved; it is bad to be hated, but still worse to be despised.
Chinese.
124
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
Pindar.
125
He only does not live in vain
Who all the means within his reach
Employs—his wealth, his thought, his speech—
T’advance the weal of other men.
Sanskrit.
126
If you injure a harmless person, the evil will fall back upon you, like light dust thrown up against the wind.
Buddhist.
127
In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling, which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The causes which produce these changes may have been long at work within us, but the changes themselves are instantaneous, and apparently without sufficient cause.
Longfellow.