Great Throughts Treasury

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Euripedes NULL

There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

Better | Evil | Good | Nothing |

Eustace Budgell

In short, a private education seems the most natural method for the forming of a virtuous man; a public education for making a man of business. The first would furnish out a good subject for PlatoÂ’s republic, the latter a member for a community overrun with artifice and corruption.

Education | Means | Men | Nothing | Order | Reason | Service | Temper | Think |

Euripedes NULL

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Children | Love | People | Virtue | Virtue |

Euripedes NULL

It is behind the evil sought would only cast evil.

Better | Good |

Euripedes NULL

My son! More likely to love your friends, and abhor your enemies: but beware that transcends borders and Taathor.

Heart |

Euripedes NULL

Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!

Heart | Praise | Shame |

Eugenio Montale

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Question | Taste | Time |

Eugenio Montale

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

Care | Man | Soul | Words |

Euripedes NULL

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Day | Divinity | Evil | Good | Pious | Waste | Words | Yielding | Old |

Euripedes NULL

Of all the evils that infest a state, a tyrant is the greatest; his sole will commands the laws, and lords it over them.

Daughter | Evil | Father | God | Gold | Good | Heaven | Mind | Nature | Nothing | Order | Wife | Will | God |

Euripedes NULL

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Evil |

Euripedes NULL

It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

Better | Good |

Euripedes NULL

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Evil |

Euripedes NULL

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

Heart | Object |

Euripedes NULL

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

Heart | Men | Mind | Wise | Think |

Euripedes NULL

I loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.

Evil | Fury |

Evan Esar

A husband may forget where he went on his honeymoon, but he never forgets why.

Husband |

Euripedes NULL

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Heart |

Euripedes NULL

Old menÂ’s prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

Heart | Love |