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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and
hatred therewith.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and
hatred therewith.
Better do nothing than do ill.
Better do nothing than do ill.
But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke,
Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.
But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke,
Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.
Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into read more
Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!
Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in
subjection.
Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in
subjection.
He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.
Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.
The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer.
The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer.