15 quotes found
“Make foes of bowmen if you must,Never of penmen.”
“Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.”
“Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence.”
“When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.”
“Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert,Gathers and melts.”
“Folded hands may conceal a dagger --Likewise a foe's tears.”
“I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.”
“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”
“It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.”
“Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world.”
“It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world.”
“The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.”
“Cling to the One who clings to nothing;And so clinging, cease to cling.”
“The vast world rainless, one may bid adieuTo charity and penance.”
“Virtue alone is happiness; all elseIs else, and without praise.”
