shalt find more profit. To be the best of the company
is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the
worst there.

_Quarles._

175.

Assume in adversity a countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity
moderate thy temper.

_Livy._

176.

Mark this! who lives beyond his means
Forfeits respect, loses his sense;
Where'er he goes, through the seven births,
All count him knave: him women hate.

_Hindu Poetess._

177.

Be cautious in your intercourse with the great; they seldom confer
obligations on their inferiors but from interested motives. Friendly
they appear as long as it serves their turn, but they will render no
assistance in time of actual need.

_Talmud._

178.

Man, though he be gray-headed when he comes back, soon gets a young
wife. But a woman's time is short within which she can expect to
obtain a husband. If she allows it to slip away, no one cares to
marry her. She sits at home, speculating on the probability of her
marriage.

_Aristophanes._

179.

Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes
Kindle a flame of love that never dies;
And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths,
Offer themselves a burning sacrifice.

_Omar Khayyam._

180.

When thou utterest not a word thou hast laid thy hand upon it; when
thou hast uttered it, it hath laid its hand on thee.

_Sa'di._

181.

To the tongue which bringeth thee words without reason, the answer
that best beseemeth thee is--silence.

_Nizami._

182.

The man who talketh much and never acteth will not be held in
reputation by anyone.

_Firdausi._

183.

Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both
thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.

_Magha._

184.

The worse the ill that fate on noble souls
Inflicts, the more their firmness; and they arm
Their spirits with adamant to meet the blow.