ignorance produces a dogmatic spirit. He who knows nothing
thinks he can teach others what he has himself just been learning.
He who knows much scarcely believes that what he is saying is
unknown to others, and consequently speaks with more hesitation.

_La Bruyere._

291.

When you see a man elated with pride, glorying in his riches and
high descent, rising even above fortune, look out for his speedy
punishment; for he is only raised the higher that he may fall with a
heavier crash.

_Menander._

292.

The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain,
or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does
not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

_Aristotle._

293.

Happy the man who early learns the difference between his wishes and
his powers.

_Goethe._

294.

There is nothing more pitiable in the world than an irresolute man
vacillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two,
and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them.

_Goethe._

295.

Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp
sword: neither doth the one burn nor the other wound him that comes
not too near them.

_Cervantes._

296.

We are more sociable and get on better with people by the heart than
the intellect.

_La Bruyere._

297.

A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the
ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

_Bhartrihari._

298.

Do not anxiously expect what is not yet come; do not vainly regret
what is already past.

_Chinese._

299.

The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to
reason; thou shalt govern many if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou
be a monarch of a little world, command thyself.

_Quarles._

300.

If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are
envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they h