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Wisdom provides things necessary, not superfluous.—Solon.

A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.Ambrose.

He must be a wise man himself, who is capable of distinguishing one.-Diogenes.

Wisdom adorns riches, and shadows poverty.-Socrates.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and the best provision in old age.-Aristotle.

They who educate children well, are more to be honoured, than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.-Aristotle.

It is no shame for a man to learn that he knoweth not, whatever age he may be.-Isocrates.

To know, and not be able to perform, is doubly unfortunate. -Solon.

Alexander the Great valued learning so bighly, that he used to say, "that he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge, than to his father Philip for life."

Socrates thanked God for three things;-first, that he was born a man and not a woman; second, that he was born a Grecian; and thirdly, that he was a philosopher.

He is sufficiently well learned, that knows how to do well, and has power enough to refrain from evil.-Cicero. Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.-Bion.

One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.-Crates.

Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives. Aristophanes.

Knowledge, without education, is but armed injustice.Horace.

It is better to be unborn than untaught; for ignorance is the root of misfortune.-Plato.

Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding by experience; the most ignorant by necessity; and beasts by nature.-Cicero.

Aristippus being asked what he learnt by philosophy, replied he learnt to live well with all the world.'

It is a less evil that ignorance should despise than tyrannise. -Publius Syrus.

WOMEN.

A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.Augustine.

A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of the earth, and sole wonder of the world.-Hermes.

As no man can tell where a shoe pincheth better than he that wears it, so no man can tell a woman's disposition better than he that hath wedded her.-Marcus Aurelius.

Beauty in the faces of women, and folly in their hearts, be two worms that fret life and waste goods.

Women that are chaste when they are trusted, prove wantons when they are unjustly suspected.

Trust not a woman when she weepeth, for it is her nature to weep when she wanteth her will.-Socrates.

Whoso findeth a wife, findeth a good thing.—Solomon.

Woman either loves or hates; her affections know no medium. Publius Syrus.'

It is a blind man's question to ask, why those things are loved which are beautiful.

Women that paint themselves to seem beautiful, do clearly deface the image of their Creator. Ambrose.

Never praise a man for being like a woman, nor a woman for resembling a man.-Padaretus.

Humble wedlock is better than proud virginity.-Augustine. Marriage, with peace, is the world's paradise; with strife, this life's purgatory.

A woman without dowry has no liberty to speak.-Euripides. The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth.-Homer.

As a jewel of gold in a hog's snout, so is a fair woman without virtue. Solomon.

MISCELLANEOUS MAXIMS.

As we must render an account of every idle word, so must we likewise of our idle silence.-Ambrose.

A filthy subject defrauds Poetry of her due praise.

Advise not what is most pleasant, but what is most useful.— Solon.

Actions measured by time, seldom prove bitter by repentance. "As I am Antonius," said the Emperor, "Rome is my city and my country; but, as I am a man, the world." Adultery desires no procreation but pleasure.—Anselm. As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul.-Sophocles. A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.-Pythagoras.

Be always at leisure to do good; never make business an excuse to decline the offices of humanity.-M. Aurelius. Bear, and blame not, what you cannot cliange.-Publius Syrus.

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Charity is the scope of all God's commands.-Chrysostome. Cato said he had rather people should inquire why he had not a statue erected to his memory, than why he had." Christ's coat indeed had no seam, but the church's vesture is of divers colours.-Ambrose.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but in being resolutely minded in a just cause.- -Plutarch.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.-Origen.

Divinity cannot be defined.—Politeuphia.

Depend not on fortune, but conduct.--Publius Syrus.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but deserving them.-Aristotle.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.-Socrates.

Fortune has no power over discretion.-Solon.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.—Socrates. Fortitude is the mean between fear and rashness.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.-Seneca.

He who fears his servants is less than a servant.-Publius
Syrus.

He is a worthless being who lives only for himself.—Ibid.
He denies himself, who asks what it is impossible to grant.—
Publius Syrus.

However wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.-Seneca.

He threatens many who injures one.-Publius Syrus.
Hope is a working man's dream.-Pliny.

He is doubly sinful who congratulates a successful knave.—
Publius Syrus.

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.-Cicero.

It is difficult keeping that which is admired by many.Publius Syrus.

It is a fraud to borrow what we are not able to repay.-Ibid. It is cruelty to the innocent not to punish the guilty.—Ibid. Know thyself.-Chilo.

Labour is a mortal enemy to love, and a deadly foe to fancy. Light cares speak, great ones are dumb.-Seneca.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controuls youth, and delights old age.-Lactantius.

Moderate honours are wont to augment, but immoderate to diminish.-Theopompus.

Necessity makes war to be just.-Bias.

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.-Demosthenes.

Of things above we judge from things below;

Whence can we reason but from what we know.-Cato.

One should make a serious study of a pastime.-Alexander the Great.

Opinion is the great pillar which upholds the Commonwealth.

-Portanus.

Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them.-Pacuvius. Patience is so like fortitude, that she seems either her sister or her daughter.-Aristotle.

Patience under old injuries invites new ones.

Pardon others often, thyself never.—Ibid.

-Publius Syrus.

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.-Cato.

Remove not the ancient land-marks which thy fathers have set. Solomon.

Suspect the meaning, and regard not speeches.-Socrates.
Speech is the gift of all, but thought of few.-D. Cato.

Sudden movements of the mind often break out either for great good or great evil.-Homer.

Success consecrates the foulest crimes.-Seneca.

Shame may restrain what the law does not prohibit.-Seneca. So live and hope as if thou would'st die immediately.—Pliny. To prescribe physic for the dead, and advice to the old, is the same thing.Diogenes.

Too much sorrow in a man is as much to be condemned, as too much boldness in a woman.-Bias.

To be commended by those who might blame without fear, gives great pleasure.—Agesilaus.

Two things ought to be the object of our fear, the envy of friends, and the hatred of enemies.-Bias.

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.-Publius Syrus.

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