Keep thy heart afar from sorrow, and be not anxious about the
trouble which is not yet come.
_Firdausi._
62.
If thy garments be clean and thy heart be foul, thou needest no key
to the door of hell.
_Sa'di._
63.
We ought never to mock the wretched, for who can be sure of being
always happy?
_La Fontaine._
64.
To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.
_Sophocles._
65.
Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is
drunk.
_Plato._
66.
Wrapt up in error is the human mind,
And human bliss is ever insecure;
Know we what fortune yet remains behind?
Know we how long the present shall endure?
_Pindar._
67.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself
to the vessel that contains it.
_Chinese._
68.
He who formerly was reckless and afterwards became sober brightens
up this world like the moon when freed from clouds.
_Dhammapada._
69.
When a base fellow cannot vie with another in merit he will attack
him with malicious slander.
_Sa'di._
70.
If a man be not so happy as he desires, let this be his comfort--he
is not so wretched as he deserves.
_R. Chamberlain._
71.
In conversation humour is more than wit, easiness, more than
knowledge; few desire to learn, or to think they need it; all desire
to be pleased, or, if not, to be easy.
_Sir W. Temple._
72.
The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very
mistakes are so many lessons of instruction.
_Tom Browne._
73.
We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.
_Barrow._
74.
The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his
passion which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in
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