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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.


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EURIPEDES Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness
HENRIK IBSEN The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the conti...
SIR RICHARD STEELE Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
HENRIK IBSEN I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not...
EURIPIDES The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his pass...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passio...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passio...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.
SOPHOCLES The will of man is his happiness.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature o...
SYLVAN BARNET His children, his grandchildren were the light of his life.
BARBARA REILLY THE BACHELOR, THE MEANING OF HIS LIFE LIVING IN DARKNESS IS A CURSED ANIMAL. THE BACHELOR, THE MEANI...
MUCOR DEDALIV RALUI The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work ...
HENRY B. EYRING The will of man is his happiness.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
GROUCHO MARX What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his he...
MARK TWAIN A wise man has his happiness in things that avoided.
DAVI OLIVEIRA When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to...
BEN JONSON A man enrich his community. A man teach and display leadership qualities for his children. A man by ...
CARLOS WALLACE Hold no man responsible for what he says in his grief.
THE TALMUD Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion...
MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most e...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The knowledge of God that a person has, influences not only his own life, but also the lives of his ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The truest human is the one whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, an...
MARKESA YEAGER Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and ch...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more lo...
JOHN RUSKIN Deprive the average human being of his life-lie, and you rob him of his happiness
HENRIK IBSEN Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands,...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, th...
THOMAS MANN Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to ...
ERIC HOFFER Who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it?
MARK TWAIN If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfor...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfor...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Peanuts' made us realize that our emotions, frustrations, hopes and dreams are common to us all, ......
ED ANDERSON 'Peanuts' made us realize that our emotions, frustrations, hopes and dreams are common to us all, .....
ED ANDERSON An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man wh...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more...
THE TALMUD He spoke often of his wife and his children. He was definitely a family man.
GINNY DYCHE No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM FAULKNER The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he s...
LIN YUTANG After the battle, many new ghosts cry, The solitary old man murmurs in his grief.
DU FU The real power of every man lies in his ability to prolong happiness.
JOHN B. BEJO Narrated Abu Huraira: "Allah's Messenger (sallallahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said, "By Him in Whose Hands...
TAMIM M A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed f...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in h...
ALEXANDER POPE . . . when the horror of his grief was new to him, and every object in life, however trifling or how...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symb...
RALPH ELLISON What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his inst...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with mai...
CONFUCIUS There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT If you come to help us,for the moment,you will not gain any profit. We have no oil. We have nothing ...
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT The fear of failure & the fear of disappointment can really hurt one’s personality and ruin his or...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made...
J.M. SYNGE He that hath a wife and children must not sit with his fingers in his mouth
PROVERB The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new ma...
WANG YANG-MING And every grief that mortals shareFound pity in his tenderness.
WILLIAM FORREST WINTER A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater t...
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks...
ROBERT SOUTHEY It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks...
ROBERT SOUTHEY A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half of his life.
UNKNOWN A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of e...
RICHARD WATSON GILDER A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of e...
RICK PITINO He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best.
GEORGE CHAPMAN A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds hims...
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds him...
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN That young man will either be killed by you or he will spend the rest of his life in prison in a cou...
DAVID BAUGH By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the ...
JOSEPH FRANKLIN RUTHERFORD Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
LUCIUS ACCIUS TELEPHUS There is an hour in each man's life appointed To make his happiness, if then he seize it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Happiness & Sadness are two contemporary stages in life. A wise man overcomes sadness with his w...
DEEPAK CHANDRA The critic will certainly be an interpreter, but he will not treat Art as a riddling Sphinx, whose s...
OSCAR WILDE It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of h...
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life,...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.
DAVID NIVEN Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great piece...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain pe...
BERTRAND RUSSELL A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.
DAVID MCCORD He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
GEORGE HERBERT He (Rodgers) was a good man. He was just out of school at Ohio University and he was obviously the b...
FRANK ROBEY ...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.
WILLIAM FAULKNER If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the ...
CONFUCIUS In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinio...
WASHINGTON IRVING In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinio...
JEREMY COLLIER Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great p...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A man does not have to show pride in his children by endless talk; One can see it in his face as he ...
STEVEN R. DIXON Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him.
DON MARQUIS A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A c...
W. H. AUDEN Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning
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Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
EURIPIDES One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
EURIPIDES No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
EURIPIDES He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
EURIPIDES He is not a lover who does not love forever.
EURIPIDES The greatest pleasure of life is love.
EURIPIDES There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happi...
EURIPIDES Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
EURIPIDES There is the sky, which is all men's together.
EURIPIDES Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
EURIPIDES Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
EURIPIDES I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
EURIPIDES Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
EURIPIDES Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
EURIPIDES But this is slavery, not to speak ones thought.
EURIPIDES Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
EURIPIDES But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
EURIPIDES The wavering mind is but a base possession.
EURIPIDES Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
EURIPIDES To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
EURIPIDES Cleverness is not wisdom.
EURIPIDES Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
EURIPIDES Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
EURIPIDES The language of truth is simple.
EURIPIDES People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
EURIPIDES Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns...
EURIPIDES It is change; all yields its place and goes.
EURIPIDES Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
EURIPIDES Authority is never without hate.
EURIPIDES There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience.
EURIPIDES Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
EURIPIDES Much effort, much prosperity.
EURIPIDES There is the sky, which is all men's together.
EURIPIDES That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
EURIPIDES There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
EURIPIDES In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
EURIPIDES No one who lives in error is free.
EURIPIDES Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
EURIPIDES Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
EURIPIDES When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
EURIPIDES To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is s...
EURIPIDES Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
EURIPIDES 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
EURIPIDES Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
EURIPIDES Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
EURIPIDES I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
EURIPIDES To generous souls every task is noble.
EURIPIDES Noble fathers have noble children.
EURIPIDES To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
EURIPIDES Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
EURIPIDES The bold are helpless without cleverness.
EURIPIDES The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
EURIPIDES We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.
EURIPIDES Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
EURIPIDES Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
EURIPIDES Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperce...
EURIPIDES The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
EURIPIDES There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, ...
EURIPIDES The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
EURIPIDES Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can c...
EURIPIDES It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
EURIPIDES O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
EURIPIDES The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
EURIPIDES Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves
EURIPIDES Cleverness is not wisdom
EURIPIDES A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
EURIPIDES I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
EURIPIDES Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
EURIPIDES It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
EURIPIDES God helps him who strives hard.
EURIPIDES The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsm...
EURIPIDES Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves
EURIPIDES Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
EURIPIDES It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
EURIPIDES I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fur...
EURIPIDES Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
EURIPIDES Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
EURIPIDES Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
EURIPIDES In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
EURIPIDES There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscien...
EURIPIDES The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
EURIPIDES Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
EURIPIDES There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
EURIPIDES The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
EURIPIDES Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
EURIPIDES Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
EURIPIDES There is just one life for each of us: our own.
EURIPIDES When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
EURIPIDES Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
EURIPIDES No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them...
EURIPIDES Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
EURIPIDES Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture?
EURIPIDES You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.
EURIPIDES They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in...
EURIPIDES For strangely graven
Is the orb of life, that one and another
In gold and power may outp...
EURIPIDES Dreams of the proud man, making great And greater ever, Things which are not of God. In wide And dev...
EURIPIDES Receive the god into your kingdom
pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance!
EURIPIDES What else is Wisdom? What of man's endeavour
Or God's high grace, so lovely and so great?
EURIPIDES Isn’t it delightful to forget how old we are?
EURIPIDES This town must learn,
even against its will, how much it costs
to scorn a God's mysteries ...
EURIPIDES [Diontsos].
Swoony type,
long hair, bedroom eyes,
cheeks like wine.
EURIPIDES O Dionysus, Son of God,
do you see our sufferings?
Do you see your faithful
in helple...
EURIPIDES Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.
EURIPIDES The God knows when to smile.
EURIPIDES O Dionysus, we feel you near,
stirring like molten lava
under the ravaged earth,
flow...
EURIPIDES Come, God --
Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus --
burst into life, burst
into being, be a ...
EURIPIDES My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God.
EURIPIDES Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling
can corrupt an honest woman.
EURIPIDES Prepare yourselves
for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!
EURIPIDES Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recallin...
EURIPIDES He who believes needs no explanation.
EURIPIDES He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is l...
EURIPIDES Young man,
two are the forces most precious to mankind.
The first is Demeter, the Goddess...
EURIPIDES Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
EURIPIDES Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
EURIPIDES The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.)
EURIPIDES A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
EURIPIDES Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
EURIPIDES Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour
EURIPIDES Soon all of you immortals
Will be as dead as we are!
Come on then, what are you waiting f...
EURIPIDES Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
EURIPIDES But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
EURIPIDES When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,...
EURIPIDES Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
EURIPIDES Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
EURIPIDES I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
exaltation in the changing of the Muses;
I hav...
EURIPIDES Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
EURIPIDES A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
EURIPIDES A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first;
a viper is not more hateful.
EURIPIDES Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
EURIPIDES The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
EURIPIDES A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
EURIPIDES I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Your very silence shows you agree.
EURIPIDES Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
EURIPIDES When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
EURIPIDES Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
EURIPIDES The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us ...
EURIPIDES Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
EURIPIDES Do not consider painful what is good for you.
EURIPIDES Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
EURIPIDES When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
EURIPIDES The wisest men follow their own direction.
EURIPIDES When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
EURIPIDES Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
EURIPIDES Youth holds no society with grief.
EURIPIDES What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
EURIPIDES My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
EURIPIDES Leave no stone unturned.
EURIPIDES In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
EURIPIDES I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and p...
EURIPIDES You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
EURIPIDES Time cancels young pain.
EURIPIDES Friends show their love in times of trouble...
EURIPIDES I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
EURIPIDES Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
EURIPIDES This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
EURIPIDES Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
EURIPIDES It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk
EURIPIDES Time will reveal everything to posterity; it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put
EURIPIDES Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
EURIPIDES Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
EURIPIDES Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
EURIPIDES Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
EURIPIDES Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.
EURIPIDES Waste not fresh tears over old griefs
EURIPIDES What anger worse or slower to abate than lovers love when it turns to hate.
EURIPIDES The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
EURIPIDES I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.
EURIPIDES If there are no gods,All our toil is without meaning.
EURIPIDES For a sickness, love is the healthiest
EURIPIDES Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
EURIPIDES Prosperity is full of friends.
EURIPIDES Unhappiness remembering happiness.
EURIPIDES The wisest men follow their own direction
EURIPIDES Often a noble face hides filthy ways
EURIPIDES Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the ...
EURIPIDES Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman
EURIPIDES Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise
EURIPIDES There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one
EURIPIDES All is change; all yields its place and goes
EURIPIDES The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.
EURIPIDES If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.
EURIPIDES The man that isn't jolly after drinking Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking
EURIPIDES Money is the wise man's religion
EURIPIDES Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
EURIPIDES This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
EURIPIDES No one is happy all his life long.
EURIPIDES In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
EURIPIDES The lucky person passes for a genius.
EURIPIDES Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
EURIPIDES When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
EURIPIDES Cowards do not count in battle; they are there but not in it
EURIPIDES It is for the general good of all that the wicked should be punished
EURIPIDES If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
EURIPIDES