_Richter._

567.

Want and sorrow are the gifts which folly earns for itself.

_Schubert._

568.

In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme
excellence is simplicity.

_Longfellow._

569.

Those who cause dissensions in order to injure other people are
preparing pitfalls for their own ruin.

_Chinese._

570.

Such deeds as thou with fear and grief
Wouldst, on a sick-bed laid, recall,
In youth and health eschew them all,
Remembering life is frail and brief.

_Mahabharata._

571.

A man should not keep company with one whose character, family, and
abode are unknown.

_Panchatantra._

572.

Sit not down to the table before thy stomach is empty, and rise
before thou hast filled it.

_Arabic._

573.

If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.

_Quarles._

574.

In all companies there are more fools than wise men, and the greater
part always gets the better of the wiser.

_Rabelais._

575.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in
the stormy billows of the world.

_Goethe._

576.

No one ought to despond in adverse circumstances, for they may turn
out to be the cause of good to us.[30]

_Menander._

[30] Cf. Job V, 17; Heb. XII, 6.

577.

The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may
point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.

_Bhartrihari._

578.

A man should never despise himself, for brilliant success never
attends on the man who is contemned by himself.

_Mahabharata._

579.

It is the character of a simpleton to be a bore. A man of sense sees
at once whether he is welcome or tiresome; he knows to withdraw the
moment that precedes that in which he would be