Authors From Syria

"Methinks you are unhappy, if you never have been so."

"How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself!"

"The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself."

"We should bear our destiny, not weep over it."

"Every thing which has birth, must pay tribute to death."

"He who hesitates to take the right course, deliberates to no purpose."

"Avarice never lacks a reason for refusing a favor."

"Be the first to laugh at your own blunder, and no one will laugh at you."

"No one should be judge in his own cause."

"He gets through too late who goes too fast."

"There is no more shameful sight, than an old man commencing life."

"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

"The truth is lost when there is too much contention about it."

"There is no pleasure which continued enjoyment cannot render disgusting."

"It is vain to be the pupil of a sage if you have no brains yourself."

"Do not despise the lowest steps in the ascent to greatness."

"He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one."

"It matters not with what purpose you do it, if the act itself be bad."

"To control a man against his will, is not to correct him, but injure him."

"You will find it difficult to be sole guardian over that which multitudes covet."

"That is not yours which fortune made yours."

"When you are in love you are not wise, and when you are wise you are not in love."

"Even when we get what we wish, it is not ours."

"A wise man rules his passions, a fool obeys them."

"Human reason grows rich by self-conquest."

"Tension weakens the bow; the want of it, the mind."

"The severest affliction is the one which has never been tried."

"Man's life is a loan, not a gift."

"To be not too sanguine of our conclusions, is one half of wisdom."

"He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself."

"The most formidable enemy lies hid in one's own heart."

"It is a useless defense which cannot find a fair trial."

"There are some remedies worse than the disease."

"Every man is a master in his own calling"

"He who can get more than belongs to him is apt to accommodate his desires to his opportunity."

"An over-taxed patience gives way to fierce anger."

"Reproach in misfortune is an unseasonable cruelty."

"Folly had rather be unheard than be buffeted."

"Patience is a remedy for every sorrow."

"The greatest of comforts is to be free from blame."

"One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another, like a mother."

"Pleasant is the remembrance of the ills that are past."

"Avoid cupidity, and you conquer a kingdom."

"A kindness should be received in the spirit that prompted it."

"Speed itself is slow when cupidity waits."

"The party to which the rabble belong is ever the worst."

"Even calamity becomes virtue's opportunity."

"The good to which we have become accustomed, is often an evil."

"He who takes counsel of good faith, is just even to an enemy."

"Fortune has no lawful control over men's morals."