ss, especially.

_Confucius._

156.

He who has given satisfaction to the best of his time has lived for
ages.

_Schiller._

157.

I never yet found pride in a noble nature nor humility in an
unworthy mind.

_Feltham._

158.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind, that blows now this way, now
that, and changes name as it changes sides.

_Dante._

159.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing. Both consist in
setting a just value on ourselves--neither more nor less.

_Hazlitt._

160.

Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his
manner of portraying another.

_Richter._

161.

A foolish husband fears his wife; a prudent wife obeys her husband.

_Chinese._

162.

He who devises evil for another falls at last into his own pit, and
the most cunning finds himself caught by what he had prepared for
another. But virtue without guile, erect like the lofty palm, rises
with greater vigour when it is oppressed.

_Metastasio._

163.

Laughing is peculiar to man, but all men do not laugh for the same
reason. There is the attic salt which springs from the charm in the
words, from the flash of wit, from the spirited and brilliant sally.
There is the low joke which arises from scurrility and idle conceit.

_Goldoni._

164.

The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so
even amidst an army of soldiers.

_Cervantes._

165.

Petty ambition would seem to be a mean craving after distinction.

_Theophrastus._

166.

It is an old observation that wise men grow usually wiser as they
grow older, and fools more foolish.

_Wieland._

167.

Use law and physic only for necessity. They that use them otherwise
abuse themselves into weak bodies and light purses. They are good
remedies, bad businesses,