If we do not render respect to superiors, can we expect inferiors to tender respect to us?
Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
assuredly the secret man heareth many confessions
Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
but what is true of the details (and many of them) is true of the design
Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
When the world was young it begat more children, but now it is old, it begets fewer
Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
The lowest virtues draw praise from them; the middle virtues work in them astonishment or admiration; but of the highest virtues they have no sense or perceiving at all.
Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
Nomen bonum instar unguenti fragrantis
Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
impudent flatterer, look wherein a man is conscious to himself that he is most defective and is most out of countenance in himself,6 that will the flatterer entitle him to perforce
Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
pessimum genus inimicorum laudantium
Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
Ulysses, Vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati
Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested