Great Throughts Treasury

"By Hercules! I have often heard that your piping-hot lie is the best of lies: what the gods dictate, that is right."

"By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death."

"Conquer by means of true virtue."

"Conquered, we conquer."

"Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only."

"Courage is its own reward."

"Courage is the very best gift of all; courage stands before everything, it does, it does! It is what maintains and preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things: a man with courage has every blessing."

"Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls."

"Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead."

"Do you then yourself do that which you would be suggesting to us to do."

"Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge."

"Each man reaps on his own farm."

"Enemies carry a report in form different from the original."

"Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning."

"Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow."

"Flame is very near to smoke."

"Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers."

"For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise... The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead."

"For him I reckon lost who?s lost to shame."

"For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed."

"For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent."

"For true it is, good oft befalls us when we least expect it. And true it is, that when we trust in hope, we?re often disappointed."

"For what is idly got is idly spent."

"For what is yours is mine, and mine is yours."

"Fortitude is a great help in distress."

"Fortune molds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases."

"Frequently, the best abilities escape notice."

"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

"Friendship, Friend, Heaven Where there are friends there is wealth."

"Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead."

"He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other."

"He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience."

"He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need."

"He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary."

"He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head."

"He that is in love, faith, if he be hungry, is not hungry at all."

"He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock."

"He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve."

"He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in."

"He who lost shame should be considered dead."

"He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard."

"He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. Persian Proverb Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only."

"He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell."

"He whom the gods favor dies in youth."

"He whom the Gods love dies young."

"He whom the gods protect: the youth is dying whilst he is in health, and has his senses and his judgment sound."

"He wishes well is worthless, unless the deed go with it."

"How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!"

"How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity."

"How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity."