Great Throughts Treasury

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

"Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent."

"Perish the man who can love lightly."

"Let each man have the wit to go his own way."

"All things are not equally suitable to all men."

"Time magnifies everything after death; a man’s fame is increased as it passes from mouth to mouth after his burial."

"There are no implacable enmities save those that spring from love."

"A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away."

"By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. "

"Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. "

"Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you."

"Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away. "

"Give the historians something to write about."

"Every one follows the inclinations of his own nature. "

"Everybody in love is blind."

"Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.]"

"If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of."

"I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength. "

"Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest."

"In great things it is enough even to have willed."

"Let us enjoy pleasure while we can; pleasure is never long enough."

"Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand. "

"Never change when love has found its home. "

"The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love."

"The honors of genius are eternal"

"The law itself follows gold."

"The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep."

"There is no wide road which leads to the Muses."

"There is something beyond the grave; death does not put an end to everything the dark shade escapes from the consumed pile. "

"To each man at his birth nature has given some fault."