Great Throughts Treasury

"Rule your desires lest your desires rule you."

"Secret pleasure is rather fear than joy."

"Slow deliberation is but prudence."

"Solitude is the mother of anxieties."

"Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is."

"Suspicion breeds rivals for herself... The suspicious man condemns the good faith of all... Suspicion is an unspoken wrong to tested worth."

"The avaricious man is good to none - worst to himself."

"The avaricious man lacks what he has as much as what he has not."

"The best remedy for an injury is to forget it."

"The boast of arrogance soon turns to shame."

"The cure [remedy] for wrongs is forgetfulness."

"The evil that lies concealed is always the most serious."

"The eyes are blind when the mind is elsewhere."

"The guilty fear the law, the guiltless Fortune."

"How long is life to the wretched, how short for the happy!"

"The man who pities his stricken fellow-man remembers his own lot."

"The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety."

"The noble mind does not admit an insult."

"The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body."

"The remedy for wrongs is to forget them."

"The timid see dangers which do not even exist."

"The wickedness of the few is the calamity of the many."

"The wretched reflect either too much or too little."

"To accept a benefit is to sell one's freedom."

"To conquer is honorable, to oppress bitter, to forgive beautiful."

"To feel shame is a sort of slavery."

"To lose what is not your own is not to lose but to give back."

"To shun desire is to conquer a kingdom."

"Too much familiarity breeds contempt."

"Unity gives strength and firmness to the humblest."

"Valor grows by daring, fear by delay."

"Wantonness and honor are never in harmony."

"What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?"

"Whatever can happen to one man can happen to every man."

"Whatsoever you attempt, consider your goal."

"When you call a man ungrateful you have no words of abuse left."

"When you love you are not wise: when you are wise you do not love."

"With the good man anger is quick to die."

"You can never tell what to wish for or what to avoid: so each day mocks you."

"You will conquer more surely by prudence than by passion."

"A good reputation is more valuable than money."

"A lover is like a torch - he blazes the more he is moved."

"A rolling stone gathers no moss."

"A serious accusation, even lightly made, does harm."

"A fair exterior is a silent recommendation."

"A good cause fears no judge."

"A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy."

"An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies."

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."

"As men, we are all equal in the presence of death."