Great Throughts Treasury

"The end always passes judgment on what has gone before."

"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing."

"The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time."

"The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself."

"The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved. [The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.]"

"The man who loses his honor can lose nothing further."

"The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not."

"The most formidable enemy lies hid in one"

"The next day is never so good as the day before."

"The opportunity is often lost by deliberating."

"The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them."

"The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment."

"The things which belong to others please us more, And that which is ours, is more pleasing to others."

"The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise."

"The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it."

"The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present."

"They do injury to the good who spares the bad."

"Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid."

"To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it."

"To do two things at once is to do neither."

"To refuse graciously is to confer a favor."

"To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent."

"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."

"Trust, like the soul, never returns once it is gone."

"Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one."

"Unless you make allowances for your friends' foibles, you betray your own."

"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs."

"We are interested in others, when they are interested in us."

"We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have."

"We die as often as we lose a friend."

"We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all."

"We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead."

"What is left when honor is lost?"

"Whatever you can lose, reckon of no account."

"When fortune flatters, she does it to betray."

"When we speak evil of others, we generally condemn ourselves."

"When you are at sea, keep clear of the land."

"When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all."

"Where there is unity there is always victory."

"Whom fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad."

"Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself."

"You are eloquent enough if truth speaks through you."

"You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell."

"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force."

"You cannot put the same shoe on every foot."

"You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm."

"You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot."