| Quotes |
Topic |
| Adversity | Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. |
| Advice | A good scare is worth more than good advice. |
| Beauty | Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. |
| Beginnings | To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise. |
| Character | Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. |
| Emotion | If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. |
| Eyes | What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. |
| Fortune | Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. |
| Genius | Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. |
| Gold | Gold will be slave or master. |
| Gossip | Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them. |
| Jealousy | The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour. |
| Learning | Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. |
| Life | In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. -Horace. |
| Moderation | He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. |
| Money | Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. |
| Music | The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at. |
| Neighbors | The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour. |
| Poetry | No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. |
| Ridicule | Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect. |
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