What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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Anand Thakur
What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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