10 quotes found
"Kar vasselage par sens nen est folie, Mielz valt mesure que ne fait estultie."
"Know that coyness has a certain extent and if exceeded, shall turn to weakness; generosity has a certain extent and if exceeded, shall become wasting; economy has a certain extent and if exceeded, shall be stinginess; and courage has a certain extent, which if exceeded, becomes recklessness."
"I tell thee, be not rash; a golden bridge Is for a flying enemy."
"Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss."
"If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic. If he is reckless, they will not only be reckless likewise, but also eat into his works. Besides, a reckless king will easily fall into the hands of his enemies. Hence the king shall ever be wakeful."
"You better check yo self before you wreck yo self."
"Ay, to those lofty beings, be they who they will, who look down from their starry thrones on the strange figures flitting to and fro over this earth of ours, the wild recklessness of us mortals with each other may well lose its painful interest."
"Αὐτῶν γὰρ σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὄλοντο."
"I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incens'd that I am reckless what I do to spite the world."
"Life cannot move forward just by being drenched in emotions."