It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters

Topics: Passion Quotes

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of...

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of...

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you...

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you...

Little friends may prove great friends.

Little friends may prove great friends.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we...

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we...

Please all, and you will please none.

Please all, and you will please none.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Vices are their own punishment

Vices are their own punishment

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why,...

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why,...