He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.Cato.

No man is so old but thinks he may yet live another year.Hieronimus.

We should live as though our life would be both long and short.- Bias.

We had better die at once, than to live constantly in fear of death. Dion.

Life is short, yet sweet.-Euripides.

LOVE.

To love and be wise, is scarcely possible to a God.—Publius Syrus.

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.-Plutarch. Love heats the brain, and anger makes a poet.-Juvenal.

A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

True love is never idle, but worketh to serve him whom he loveth.-Augustine.

An incensed lover shuts his eyes, and tells himself many lies. -Publius Syrus.

Love is incompatible with fear.-Publius Syrus.

The approaches of love must be resisted at the first assault, lest they undermine at the second.-Pythagoras.

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.-Niphas.

Sophocles, being asked what injury he would wish to his enemy, replied, "that he might love where he was not loved again."

Love teaches music, though a man be unskilful.-Anon,

RICHES AND POVERTY.

Prefer loss to unjust gain.

Fortune gives to many too much, but to none enough.

Laberius.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.--Anaxagoras.

It is a rare miracle for money to lack a master.-Bias.
Need teaches things unlawful.-Seneca.

He who lives after nature, shall never be poor; after opinion, shall never be rich.-Seneca.

Praise not the unworthy on account of their wealth.-Bias. He is truly rich, who desires nothing; and he is truly poor, who covets all.-Solon.

Men are neither suddenly rich nor suddenly good.-Laberius. If rich, be not elated; if poor, be not dejected.-Socrates. If thou knowest how to use money, it will become thy hand-maid; if not, it will become thy master.- Diodorus. He is richest who is contented with least; for content is the wealth of a nation.-Socrates.

PUBLIC OFFICERS.

Men in authority are eyes in a state, according to whose life every man applieth his manner of living.

The buyers of offices sell by retail what they buy in gross. The most useful wisdom is-when public officers practise what philosophers teach.

Where offices are vendible, there the best monied block- . head bears the greatest sway.

Those who sell offices sell the most sacred things in the world, even justice itself, public prosperity, the people and the laws.

TRUTH.

Custom, though ever so ancient, without truth, is but an old error. Cyprian.

If thou speakest what thou wilt, thou shalt hear what thou would not.-Bias.

He who conceals an useful truth, is equally guilty with the propagator of an injurious falsehood.-Augustine.

Good men are sometimes in greater danger from speaking the truth, than evil men from speaking falsely.-Plautus.

TIME.

Nothing is more precious than time, yet nothing less valued. -Bernard.

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.-Cicero.

Things past may be repented, but not recalled.—Livy.
A philosopher being asked-what was the first thing neces-
sary to win the love of a woman, answered-opportunity.
Time is the herald of truth.-Cicero.

VIRTUE.

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.-Cicero.

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.- Bias.

The remembrance of a well-spent life is sweet.

Praise is the hire of virtue.-Cicero.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.-Augustine.

What you would not have done to yourselves, never do to others. Alexander Severus.

One ought to remember kindnesses received, and forget those we have done.-Chilo.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.-Solomon.

Do good to your friend, that he may be more wholly yours; to your enemy, that he may become your friend.-Cleobulus. Such as have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.-Diogenes.

A good man cares not for the reproofs of evil men.-Democritus. Every thing great is not always good, but all good things are great.-Demosthenes.

Covet nothing over much.-Chilo.

A soul conversant with virtue, resembles a fountain; for it is clear, and gentle, and sweet, and communicative, and rich, and harmless, and innocent.-Epictetus.

Satan is a subtle angler, and uses great cunning in the casting of his net, and searching out the vein of water where every one is delighted.-Basil.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in manhood just, in old age prudent.-Socrates.

He that helps the wicked, hurts the good.-Crates.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.-Demosthenes.

Diversity of religion is the ground of persecution, in show; but it is ambition, in effect.

The end of a dissolute life is, commonly, a desperate death. --Bion.

Virtue maketh men on the earth famous, in their graves illustrious, in the heavens immortal.-Chilo.

Nothing is profitable which is dishonest.Cicero.

He that works wickedness by another, is guilty of the fact committed himself.- Bias.

A work well begun is half ended.-Plato.

We should never remember the benefits we have conferred, nor forget the favours received.-Chilo.

The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.Publius Syrus.

If you pursue good with labour, the labour passes away and the good remains; but if you pursue pleasure with evil, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. Cicero. The judge must be condemned, when he absolves the guilty -Publius Syrus.

Every vice has a cloak, and creeps in under the name of a virtue.

In genuous shame, once lost, is never regained.-Publius Syrus.

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By others' vices, wise men amend their own.-Publius Syrus. Trust no secrets to a friend which, if reported, would bring infamy.-Thales.

It is a noble satisfaction to be ill spoken of, when we are conscious of doing what is right.-Alexander, King of Macedon.

We cannot controul the tongues of others, but a good life enables us to despise calumnies.-D. Cato.

The vicious obey their passions, as slaves do their masters.— Diogenes.

Wicked men cannot be friends, either among themselves or with the good. Socrates.

• Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.-Publius Syrus.

Virtue, though momentarily shamed, cannot be extinguished. Publius Syrus.

Every one should make the case of the injured his own.~ Solon.

The way to make ourselves admired, is to be what we affect to be thought.-Socrates.

Virtue, and not the laws and ordinances of men, is the rule of a wise man.-Antisthenes.

No one ever lost his honour, except he who had it not.Publius Syrus.

The most wicked, at heart, abhor the crimes they commit.Publius Syrus.

Successful guilt is the bane of society.-Publius Syrus.

Vice is the most dangerous, when it puts on the semblance of virtue.-Publius Syrus.

WISDOM.

Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure.Cleanthes.

It is less pain to learn in youth, than to be ignorant in age.Solon.

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The wise only profit by hearing the wisdom of others.Publius Syrus.