156
He who has given satisfaction to the best of his time has lived for ages.
Schiller.
157
I never yet found pride in a noble nature nor humility in an unworthy mind.
Feltham.
158
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind, that blows now this way, now that, and changes name as it changes sides.
Dante.
159
True modesty and true pride are much the same thing. Both consist in setting a just value on ourselves—neither more nor less.
Hazlitt.
160
Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another.
Richter.
161
A foolish husband fears his wife; a prudent wife obeys her husband.
Chinese.
162
He who devises evil for another falls at last into his own pit, and the most cunning finds himself caught by what he had prepared for another. But virtue without guile, erect like the lofty palm, rises with greater vigour when it is oppressed.
Metastasio.