Best Classic Quotes For Daily Living

• I asked an experienced elder who had profited by his knowledge of the world, "What course should I pursue to obtain prosperity?" He replied, "Contentment--if you are able, practice contentment."

Selman.

• Reason is captive in the hands of the passions, as a weak man in the hands of an artful woman.

Sa'dí.

• Like an earthen pot, a bad man is easily broken, and cannot readily be restored to his former situation; but a virtuous man, like a vase of gold, is broken with difficulty, and easily repaired

  Hitopadesa.

• Nothing is more becoming a man than silence. It is not the preaching but the practice which ought to be considered as the more important. A profusion of words is sure to lead to error.

Talmud.

• Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.

Machiavelli.

• A man who has learnt little grows old like an ox: his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.

Dhammapada.

• A stranger who is kind is a kinsman; an unkind kinsman is a stranger.

Hitopadesa.

• By six qualities may a fool be known: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without motive; inquiry, without an object; trust in a stranger; and incapacity to discriminate between friend and foe.

Arabic.

• If you injure a harmless person, the evil will fall back upon you, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

Buddhist.

• Riches disclose in a man's character the bad qualities formerly concealed in his poverty.

Arabic.

• He who has given satisfaction to the best of his time has lived for ages.

Schiller.

• Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another.

Richter.

• Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

Goethe.

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