revenge, revenge war, war poverty, poverty humility, humility patience, patience peace, and peace riches.

Men that are covetous make it their study to heap up wealth, and only to please their fancy starve their bellies.

Riches, beauty, honour, strength, or any other worldly good that we have enjoyed and is past, do but grieve to us; that which is present doth not satisfy; that which may be hoped for, as future, is altogether uncertain; what folly or madness then is it to trust any of them!

The shortest way to be rich is not by enlarging our estates, but by contracting our desires.

Wisdom is better without an inheritance, than an inheritance without wisdom.

A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune. The more riches a fool has, the greater fool he is.

If sensuality were pleasure, beasts are happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Let pleasures be ever so innocent, the excess is always criminal.

Aristippus said he liked no pleasure but that which concerned a man's true happiness.

Pleasures unduly taken enervate the soul, make fools of the wise, and cowards of the brave. A libertine life is not a life of liberty.

Though want is the scorn of every wealthy fool, an innocent poverty is yet preferable to all the guilty affluence the world can offer.

The Egyptians, at their feasts, to prevent excesses, set a skeleton before their guests, with this motto"Remember ye must shortly be such."

There is but one solid pleasure in life, and that is our duty. How miserable then, how unwise, how unpardonable, are they who make that one a pain!

Avoid gambling; for among many other evils which attend it, are these: loss of time; loss of reputation; loss of health; loss of fortune; loss of temper; ruin of families; defrauding of creditors; and what is frequently the effect of it, the loss of life, both temporal and eternal.

The ingenious M. Pascal kept always in mind this maxim—“ Avoid pleasure and superfluity."

All men of estates are, in effect, but trustees for the benefit of the distressed, and will be so reckoned when they are to give an account.

The great are under as much difficulty to expend with pleasure, as the mean to labour with success.

There needs no train of servants, no pomp or equipage, to make good our passage to heaven; but the graces of an honest mind, directed by a true faith, will serve us on the way, and make us happy at our journey's end.

Extravagance and sensuality brought Pericles, Cellias the son of Hyponicus, and Nicias, not only to necessity but to extreme poverty; and when all their substance was exhausted, they then drank to each other in a bowl of poison, and thus miserably ended their days. This is one of the many lamentable instances which may be given of the fatal effects of extravagance and sensuality.

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EVER marry without the full consent both of your intended companion's friends and your

Marriage is not commonly unhappy, but as life is unhappy; and most of those who complain of connubial miseries, have as much satisfaction as their natures would have admitted, or their conduct procured, in any other condition.

Marriage should be considered as the most solemn league of perpetual friendship-a state from which artifice and concealment are to be banished for ever, and in which every act of dissimulation is a breach of faith.

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

Pride in a woman destroys all symmetry and grace; and affectation is a more terrible enemy to a fine face than the smallpox.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech.

It is treason against the law of love and of God, for any to marry unless they wed; that is, unless they love, and be true to their love.

Ride not post for your match; if you do, you may, in the period of your journey, take sorrow for your inn, and make repentance your host.

I would not advise you to marry a woman for her beauty; for beauty is like summer fruits, which are apt to corrupt, and are not lasting.

There is a great difference between a portion and a fortune with your wife; if she be not virtuous, let her portion be ever so great, she is no fortune to you.

It is not the lustre of gold, the sparkling of diamonds and emeralds, nor the splendour of the purple tincture, that adorns or embellishes a woman; but gravity, discretion, humility, and modesty.

Where love is, there is no labour; and if there is labour, the labour is loved.

The utmost of a woman's character is contained in