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The path of immortality is hard, and only a few find it. The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universe shall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths of substance. Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious and unknowing, to the seed-ground of […]
The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man’s resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear. La Rochefoucauld, François
The scourge of life, and death’s extreme disgrace, the smoke of hell – that monster called Pain. Sidney, Philip
The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science? Nagarjuna
The scalded cat fears even cold water. Fuller, Thomas
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men. Cato, Dionysius
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. Lao-Tzu
The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. Cicero
The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along. Dewar, Thomas R.
The road goes ever on and on down fromthe door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone and I must follow if I can. Pursuing it with weary feet until it joins some larger way, where many paths and errands meet -and whither then, I cannot say. Tolkien, J.R.R.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. Emerson, Ralph Waldo