n who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks
his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged
till the evening.

_Demosthenes._

225.

Amongst all possessions knowledge appears pre-eminent. The wise call
it supreme riches, because it can never be lost, has no price, and
can at no time be destroyed.

_Hitopadesa._

226.

The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning
of life they all lie behind us, at noon we trample them under foot,
and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before
us.

_Longfellow._

227.

He who is full of faith and modesty, who shrinks from sin, and is
full of learning, who is diligent, unremiss, and full of
understanding--he, being replete with these seven things, is
esteemed a wise man.

_Burmese._

228.

If your foot slip, you may recover your balance, but if your tongue
slip, you cannot recall your words.

_Telugu._

229.

A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as the hollow mountain
returns all sounds.

_Chinese._

230.

Women are ever masters when they like,
And cozen with their kindness; they have spells
Superior to the wand of the magicians;
And from their lips the words of wisdom fall,
Like softest music on the listening ear.

_Firdausi._

231.

A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or
anything that is worse than a bad one.

_Simonides._

232.

The wife of bad conduct--constantly pleased with quarrelling--she is
known by wise men to be cruel Old Age in the form of a wife.

_Panchatantra._

233.

I have often thought that the cause of men's good or ill fortune
depends on whether they make their actions fit with the times. A man
having prospered by one mode of acting can never be persuaded that
it may be well for him to act differently, whence it is that a man's
Fortune varies, because she changes her times and he does not his
ways.