Post #3270

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old age a regret.
—Benjamin Disraeli

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Post #3269

The Wise Sayings of the SEVEN WISE MEN OF GREECE

1. Know thyself.
   Attributed to Solon of Athens.
2. Remember the end. 
   Attributed to Chilo, Spartan Philosopher, but according to Ausonius "some think that Solon said this to Croesus."
     Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end —Ecclesiasticus 7, 36. (See also Deut. 32, 29).
     Remember thy end, and let enmity cease.—Ecclesiasticus., 28, 6. (See Latin, " Finem respice.")
3. Be surety and ruin is at hand.
   Attributed to Thales of Miletus.
   (“He that hateth suretiship is sure” is a proverb from the Bible that warns against cosigning for strangers.)
4. Most men are bad.
   Attributed to Bias of Priene.
5. The mean is best.
   Attributed to Cleobulus of Lindos.
6. Know the proper season.
   Attributed to Pittacus of Mitylene.
   (Season's of life)
7. Practice is everything.
   Attributed to Periander of Corinth.
   (Life is an opportunity to learn and improve)

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Post #3268

If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers.
—Epictetus

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Post #3267

Those who eat but to support life, who wed but for the sake of progeny, and who speak but to declare the truth, surmount difficulties.
—The Hitopadesa

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Post #3266

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.
―George Bernard Shaw

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Post #3265

Old age is more to be feared than death.
—Juvenal

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Post #3264

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
—Wendell Phillips

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Post #3263

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.
—George Bernard Shaw

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Post #3262

Maxim on learning

Learning to a man is a name superior to beauty;

learning is better than hidden treasure.

Learning is a companion on a journey to a strange country,

learning is strength inexhaustible.

Learning is the source of renown and the fountain of victory in the senate.

Learning is a superior sight, learning is a livelihood;

a man without learning is as a beast of the field.

—Hitopadesa

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Post #3261

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.
—Socrates

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Post #3260

Poverty makes people satirical, soberly, sadly, bitterly satirical.
—James Hain Friswell

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Post #3259

Yonder ragged cliff Has thousand faces in a thousand hours.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Post #3258

Philosophy, if rightly defined, is naught but the love of wisdom.
—Cicero

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Post #3257

He said, "There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live."
—Dalai Lama

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