Great Throughts Treasury

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Related Quotes

Zhang Zai, also Chang Tsai

Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Blessings | Death | Earth | Grief | Heaven | Honor | Life | Life | Peace | Poverty | Wealth | Will |

Yogashastra NULL

In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self, and should therefore refrain from inflicting upon others such injury as would appear undesirable to us if inflicted upon ourselves.

Grief | Joy | Regard | Self | Suffering | Happiness |

Adam Smith

Men who have no property can injure one another only in their persons or reputations. But when one man kills, wounds, beats, or defames another, thought he to whom the injury is done suffers, he who does it receives no benefit. It is otherwise with the injuries to property. The benefit of the person who does the injury is often equal to the loss of him who suffers.

Man | Men | Property | Thought | Loss | Thought |

Alan Stewart Paton

When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

Forgive |

A.C. Benson, fully Arthur Christopher “A.C.” Benson

What we have to do is to see as deep as we can into the truth of things, not to invent paradises of thought, sheltered gardens, from which grief and suffering shall tear us, naked and protesting; but to gaze into the heart of God, and then to follow as faithfully as we can the imperative voice that speaks within the soul.

God | Grief | Heart | Soul | Suffering | Thought | Truth |

Ben Jonson

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

Glory | Grief | Man | Posterity |

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Agony | Grief | Indulgence | Life | Life |

Bhagavad Gītā, simply known as Gita NULL

You grieve for those beyond grief and you speak words of insight; but learned men do not grieve for the dead or the living.

Grief | Insight | Men | Words |

Cato the Elder, Marcus Porius Cato, aka Censorius (the Censor), Sapiens (the Wise), Priscus (the Ancient) NULL

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Public | Punishment |

Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL

Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

Grief | Mourning |

Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL

The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he that will not economize will have to agonize.

Prodigality | Will |

Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Justice | Kindness | Recompense |

Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey

You can be cured in 14 days patients afflicted with melancholia if you follow this prescription. Try to think every day how you can please someone. It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow man who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring. All that we demand of a human being and the highest praise we can give him, is that he should be a good fellow worker, a friend to all other men, and a true partner in love and marriage.

Day | Friend | Good | Individual | Life | Life | Love | Man | Marriage | Men | Praise | Think |

Francis Bacon

To grief there is a limit; not so to fear.

Fear | Grief |