ad their
deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would
be reduced to mere seeming.

_Metastasio._

301.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from
knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of
conversation.

_Hazlitt._

302.

Whoever brings cheerfulness to his work, and is ever active, dashes
through the world's labours.

_Tieck._

303.

Grossness is not difficult to define: it is obtrusive and
objectionable pleasantry.

_Theophrastus._

304.

Do not consider any vice as trivial, and therefore practise it; do
not consider any virtue as unimportant, and therefore neglect it.

_Chinese._

305.

To bad as well as good, to all,
A generous man compassion shows;
On earth no mortal lives, he knows,
Who does not oft through weakness fall.

_Ramayana._

306.

The good extend their loving care
To men, however mean or vile;
E'en base Chandalas'[12] dwellings share
Th' impartial sunbeam's silver smile.

_Hitopadesa._

[12] Chandalas, or Pariahs, are the lowest, or of no caste.

307.

Let a man accept with confidence valuable knowledge even from a
person of low degree, good instruction regarding duty even from a
humble man, and a jewel of a wife even from an ignoble family.

_Manu._

308.

We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed
with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to
be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we
move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will
come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is
scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is
often the place, if not of something better, at least for something
more agreeable.

_Goethe._

309.

The friendships formed between good and evil men differ. The
friendship of the good, at first faint like the morning light,
continually increases; the friendship of th