Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — WORDS OF THE WISE. [ARTICLE]

WORDS OF THE WISE.

Tears are sometimes equal in weight c words.— Ovid. Things ill acquired are as badly expended.—Plautus. I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.—Cioero. Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. —Rochefoucauld. Labor rids of three great evils—irksomeness, vice and poverty.—Voltaire. The man who is most alow in promising is the most sure to keep his word.— Idem. Revenge is always the pleasure of little, weak, and narrow minds.—Juvenal. He avoids many inoonvenienoes who docs not appear to notice them.— Seneca. Where pleasure is eagerly pursued, the greatest virtues will lose their power. —Cicero. Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. —Cicero. Patience makes that more tolerable w ich is impossible to prevent or remove. —Horace. Consolation, when improperly administered, does but irritate the affliction.—Rousseau. An evil at its birth is easily crushed, but it grows and strengthens by endurance.—Cicero. A wise man thinks before he speaks, but a fool speaks and then thinks of what he has been saying. French proverb. An evil sayer differs from an evil (her only in the want of opportunity—o \ the difference is but slight between a' calumniator and an assassin.—Quintilian. The reputation of a man is like his s adow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him; it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.—French proverb.