Great Throughts Treasury

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Grady Poulard

The measure of a man is not determined by his show of outward strength or the volume of his voice or the thunder of his action. It is to be seen rather in terms of the strength of his inner self in terms of the nature and depth of his commitments the sincerity of his purpose and his willingness to continue "growing up."

Action | Character | Man | Nature | Purpose | Purpose | Self | Sincerity | Strength |

Publius Syrus

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

Character | Pardon |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Character | Life | Life | Man | Order | Right | Risk |

Publius Syrus

Expect to be treated by others as you treat others.

Character |

Francis Quarles

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God. Know thyself, that thou mayest know God; and know God, that thou mayest love him and be like him. In the one thou art initiated into wisdom; and in the other perfected in it.

Art | Character | God | Know thyself | Knowledge | Love | Philosophy | Wisdom | Art |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours have been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

Character | Grace | Life | Life | Men | People | Trouble |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians; the one sharpens the appetite - the other prevents indulgence to excess.

Appetite | Character | Excess | Indulgence | Labor |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The savage lives within himself, while social man lives constantly outside himself, and only knows how to live in the opinion of others, so that he seems to receive the consciousness of his own existence merely from the judgment of others concerning him.

Character | Consciousness | Existence | Judgment | Man | Opinion | Receive |

Publius Syrus

The eyes are blind when the mind is elsewhere.

Character | Mind |

Publius Syrus

No one is a good man unless he is good to all.

Character | Good | Man | Wisdom |

Publius Syrus

The noble mind does not admit an insult.

Character | Insult | Mind |