_Buddhist._

485.

Low-minded men are occupied solely with their own affairs, but
noble-minded men take special interest in the affairs of others. The
submarine fire drinks up the ocean, to fill its insatiable interior;
the rain-cloud, that it may relieve the drought of the earth, burnt
up by the hot season.

_Bhartrihari._

486.

Those men are wise who do not desire the unattainable, who do not
love to mourn over what is lost, and are not overwhelmed by
calamities.

_Mahabharata._

487.

Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

_Plato._

488.

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.[27]

_Chinese._

[27] Cf. Pope, in his Epitaph on the poet Gay:

Of manners gentle, of affections mild;
In wit a man, simplicity, a child.

489.

If thou desirest ease in this life, keep thy secrets undisclosed,
like the modest rosebud. Take warning from that lovely flower,
which, by expanding its hitherto hidden beauties when in full bloom,
gives its leaves and its happiness to the winds.

_Persian._

490.

A husband is the chief ornament of a wife, though she have no other
ornament; but, though adorned, without a husband she has no
ornaments.

_Hitopadesa._

491.

He who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many
branches and few roots, which the first wind throws down; whilst he
whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many
roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot
uproot.

_Talmud._

492.

He that would build lastingly must lay his foundation low. The proud
man, like the early shoots of a new-felled coppice, thrusts out full
of sap, green in leaves, and fresh in colour, but bruises and breaks
with every wind, is nipped with every little cold, and, being
top-heavy, is wholly unfit for use. Whereas the humble man retains
it in the root, can abide the winter's killing blast, the ruffling
concussions of the wind, and can endure far more than that which
appears so flourishin