Book of Wise Sayings: Selected Largely from Eastern Sources |
Common terms and phrases
¹ Cf adversity aphorisms Aristotle arrow beautiful better Bharavi Bhartrihari Bruyère Buddhist Burmese Butler cause Cervantes Chamberlain character Chinese Cicero deeds delight Demosthenes Dhammapada ears earth empty evil excellent exertion fall fame faults fear feel Feltham Firdausi flowers folly fool foolish fortune fountain friends fruit gain gifts gives Goethe gold grief grow hand happiness hast hath heart heaven Hindu Poetess Hitopadesa honour husband injury kind knowledge La Bruyère learning lives Longfellow Magha Mahabharata man's Matt men's Metastasio mind misery nature neighbour ness never noble Omar Khayyam ourselves pain Panchatantra passion Pindar pleasure Plutarch poverty practise praise pride prosperity proverb Quarles Rāmāyana reason rich Sa'di Sanskrit silence sorrow soul speak speech Talmud thee Theophrastus thine things thou art thou shalt thought thyself tongue true truth vice virtue virtuous wealth wife wind wisdom wise words wouldst youth