Great Throughts Treasury

"Danger comes the sooner when it is despised."

"Disagreement makes agreement more precious."

"Each day is the scholar of yesterday."

"Even when the wound heals the scar remains."

"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it."

"Everything ripe was once green."

"Familiarity breeds contempt."

"Formidable is the enemy that lurks in a man's own breast."

"Fortune is more easily gotten than kept."

"From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own."

"God looks at pure, not full hands."

"Good thoughts, even if they are forgotten, do not perish."

"He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so."

"He guards his own property who wishes the common property to be safe."

"He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age."

"He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty."

"He is not happy who does not think himself so."

"He who overlooks one crime invites the commission of another."

"He who slays a sleeping man takes vengeance on the absent."

"If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled."

"In excessive altercation, truth is lost."

"In love, anger is always false."

"It is a bad plan that cannot be altered."

"It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others."

"It is not every question that deserves an answer."

"Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage... I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

"Life is long to the miserable, but short to the happy."

"Loss pains the miser, not the wise man."

"Love begins but does not end at will... Love cannot be wrested from one, but may slip away... The wound of love is cured by the one who causes it... Love begets worry in the hour of leisure... Compliment, not command, makes love sweet."

"Make not another's misfortune your joy."

"Man has been lent, not given, to life."

"Man is lent to life, not given."

"Mind, not body, makes lasting wedlock."

"No man is more miserable than he who lives in fear."

"No one reaches a high position without daring."

"One ungrateful person does harm to all the unfortunate."

"Opportunity is hard to recover... Opportunity is seldom presented, easily lost."

"Pain lessens when it has no means of growth... Pain of mind is worse than pain of body."

"That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy."

"That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth."

"The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself."

"The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed."

"The loss which is unknown is no loss at all."

"The malevolent have hidden teeth."

"There are some remedies worse than the disease."

"There is always victory where there is unity."

"There is no fruit which is not bitter before its ripe."

"There is nothing that time does not either soothe or conquer."

"Those who do not know how to speak are equally ignorant when to be silent."

"To cure bad health, think nothing unclean."