Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — WORDS OF THE WISE. [ARTICLE]

WORDS OF THE WISE.

Tears art sometimes equal in weight e words.—Ovid. Things ill acquired are as badly expended.—Plautus. I prefer silent prudenoe to loquacious folly.—Oloero. Hypocrisy is the homage whioh vice renders to virtue.—Rochefoucauld, i Labor rids of three great evils—4»k- ---( someness, vioe and poverty.—Voltaire. The man who is most Mow in promising is the most sure to keep his werd.— | Idem. Rbvenob is always the pleasure of little, weak, and narrow minds.—Juvenal. He avoids many laoonvenienoes who does not appear to nottea them.— ; Seneca. 1 Where pleasure is eagerly pursued, the greatest virtues will lose them power. —Cicero. Liberty oonsists in the power of doing that whioh is permitted by the law. —Cicero. Patience makes that more tolerable which is impossible to prevent or remove.—Horace. Consolation, when Improperly administered, does but irritate tee afllotion. —Rousseau. An evil at its birth is easily crushed, but it grows and strengthens by enduranee. —Cicero. A wise man thinks before he apeak*, but a fool speaks and the* thinks of what he has been saying. French proverb. An evil saver differs from eh evil doer only In the want of opportunity—or. the difference is but slight between a calumniator and an assassin.—Quintilian. The reputation of a man is like bis shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him; it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.—Frenoh proverb.