h as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of
wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain
of wishing for ever.

_Seneca._

377.

I do remember stopping by the way,
To watch a potter thumping his wet clay;
And with its all-obliterated tongue
It murmured, "Gently, brother, gently, pray!"

_Omar Khayyam._

378.

If you only knew the evils which others suffer, you would willingly
submit to those which you now bear.

_Philemon._

379.

Children form a bond of union than which the human heart finds none
more enduring.

_Livy._

380.

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy,
And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

_Juvenal._

381.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give,
But for another's we soon cease to grieve.

_Pindar._

382.

Can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our
journey's end, we should lay in the more provision for it?

_Cicero._

383.

Set about whatever you intend to do; the beginning is half the
battle.

_Ausonius._

384.

All smatterers are more brisk and pert
Than those who understand an art;
As little sparkles shine more bright
Than glowing coals that gave them light.

_Butler._

385.

No prince, how great soever, begets his predecessors, and the
noblest rivers are not navigable to the fountain.

_A. Marvell._

386.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

_Epicurus._

387.

In everything you will find annoyances, but you ought to consider
whether the advantages do not predominate.

_Menander._

388.

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have
most occupied the thoughts during the day.

_Herodotus._

389.

Sleeping, we image what awake