To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Anand Thakur
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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Water is the best of all things.
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The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.
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To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
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Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
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Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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Even genius is tied to profit.
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Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?
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Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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