Three things corrupt the world: pride, superfluity, and indolence (Welsh Triad), 172; Be courteous and spend freely, and you will be more loved (Mediæval pre- cept), 179; Waste not thy goods in great feasts (Wyclif), 196; Beware thou spend not above three or four parts of thy re- venue (Burleigh), 240; Never spend any- thing before thou have it (Raleigh), 256; Never buy but with ready money (Os- borne), 294; The art of laying out money wisely is not attained without thought (Halifax), 318; Frugality is good, if lib- erality be joined. . . . That is lost that is misused. . . . Cast up your income and live on half. . . . Frugality is the better way to be rich, for it has less toil and temptation (Penn), 326, 331, 340; Have courage to do without what you do not need; . . . to set down every penny you spend (Stanislaus), 357; The best error is on the parsimonious side. ... Fru- gality is the sure guardian of our virtues (Chesterfield), 363; Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself (Frank- lin), 378, 379, 384; I cannot enjoin too strongly a due observance of economy (Washington), 401; Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap (Jeffer- son), 411; Be saving, but not at the cost of liberality (Joubert), 418. also, Avarice, Thrift, Debt. Extortion: Extortion maketh a wise man foolish (Ecclesiastes), 60.
Extravagance. See Expenditure.
Use not to make any manner of lie. . . . A thief better than a man ac- customed to lie (Ecclesiasticus), 115, 117, 122; If thou findest anything better than truth, &c., turn to it. . . . With all thy soul do justice and say the truth (Marcus Aurelius), 158, 159, 161; I have found no remedy for weakness of heart like the pursuit of truth and justice (Maimonides), 167; Stir all to love truth (Wyclif), 195; Proclaim the truth (Thomas à Kempis), 203; He that lieth till no man believe him, let him go where no man knoweth him (Rhodes), 208, 209; Use not to lie; ... speak not every truth; . . . a harmless lie is better than a hurtful truth (Ascham), 219, 220; Above all things, tell no untruth (Sid- ney), 247;-Not telling all the truth is hiding it (Halifax), 315, 316; Never to speak anything but the pure and simple verity (Edwards), 369; Be true (Jeffer- son), 410; It is much easier to recognize error than to find truth (Goethe), 415; May prudence, fortitude, and truth erect your brow (Burns), 423. See, also, Sin- cerity, Promises, Hypocrisy. Fame.- Renown.
Glory: The vulgar is of beautiful deeds
a depraved judge (Pythagoras), 93; There is a shame which is glory. Envy not the glory
of a sinner (Ecclesiasticus), 115, 119 Notoriety and popular fame not to be reckoned amongst goods (Cicero), 128; Be a despiser of vain glory (Rhodes), 208; Happy is he . . . untied unto the worldly care of public fame (Wotton), 282; Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest (Browne), 302; Look upon fame as the talk of neighbors at the street door (Richter), 427. See, also, Honors, worldly; Repu- tation.
Familiarity: Be familiar to few, equal to all (Rhodes), 207; Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar (Shakespeare), 281. Fanshawe, Sir R. Translation from Mar-; tial, 144. Fashion Have courage to prefer propriety to fashion (Stanislaus), 358. See, also, Dress.
Father, duty towards. See Filial duty. Fault-finding. See Complaining, Censure. Fawning. See Flattery.
Fear. See Courage.
Fellowship. See Neighbors.
Fénelon. Rules for a Christian life, 343. Fickleness. See Firmness. Fidelity.- Treachery: The perversity of the treacherous shall destroy them (Pro- verbs), 52; There is no inheritance like faithfulness (Maimonides), 168; Be faith- ful in little things (Thomas à Kempis), 203; Who comprehends his trust, and to the same keeps faithful (Wordsworth), 430.
Filial duty (Ptah-hotep), 39, 40; Honor thy father and thy mother (Decalogue), 42; Fear every man his mother and his father (Leviticus), 44; Hear the instruc- tion of thy father, forsake not the law of thy mother (Proverbs), 48; By deep de- votion seek thy debt to pay. . . . Treat not with disrespect (Manu), 65; The man of sin is he confess'd who . . . his hoary parent stings with taunting rage (Hesiod), 73, 74; To support father and mother, the greatest blessing (Buddha), 80; With lowly duty to thy parents bow (Pythag- oras), 86; Esteem most highly filial piety (Confucius), 100; Honor thy father and mother. Help thy father in his age (Ecclesiasticus), 114, 118; To thy father and mother show honor and re- spect (St. Louis), 176; Love your lady and mother, obey her commandments, believe her counsels (Suffolk), 200; Re- vere, love and serve father and mother (Mexican precept), 222; The greatest comfort you can bestow on parents is to live well and learn well (Lyly), 262; If thou wouldst be obeyed as a father, be obedient as a son (Penn), 328; Honor and obey your natural parents, altho' they be poor (Washington), 404; Rever- ence and cherish your parents (Jeffer- son), 410.
Firmness.-Steadfastness.-Resolution. -- Will. Fickleness: Not lightly from thy resolution swerve (Pythagoras), 87; Abide by the rules of life you have deliberately proposed to yourself (Epictetus), 1 The prudent man changes not unreason- ably (Thomas à Kempis), 203; Be con- stant, but not obstinate (Rhodes), 207; Take some one path and march in a straight line (Descartes) 297 We have more power than will La Rochefou cauld), 310; Have the courage to adhere to a resolution
and to abandon it Have courage to ace a difficulty (Stanislaus), 357; If
thou believest a thing impossible, thy despondency shall make it so (Chester- field), 363; Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve (Franklin), 377. See, also, Stub- bornness, Persuasion, Refusing, Doing. Fitness: It is not enough that a thing be right, if it be not fit (Penn), 327. Flattery: Have nothing to do with a treach- erous flatterer (Mediæval precept), 179; Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors (Raleigh), 255; Love rather right words than flattering. ... Let it be as painful to be praised of lewd and inhonest per- sons as if praised for lewd and inhonest deeds. . . . Allure not the love of any man by flattery (Rhodes), 206, 207; Keep some great man thy friend (Bur- leigh), 243; Happy is he . . . whose state can neither flatterers feed, nor &c. (Wotton), 283; Use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the glosse of a sweetlipt flatterer (Quarles), 290; If we did not flatter ourselves, flattery of others would be harmless. . . . Flattery is a false coin, &c. (La Rochefoucauld), 311; Be no flatterer (Washington), 402. See, also, Praise.
Fools: As the crackling of thorns under a 'pot is the laughter of the fool (Ecclesias- tes), 60; Shame shall be the promotion of fools. The companion of fools shall smart (Proverbs), 50, 53; There is no companionship with a fool. The fool becomes full of evil, even if he gathers it little by little (Dhammapada), 82, 83; Consult not with a fool (Eccle- siasticus), 119; The three laughs of a fool at the good, at the bad, and at he knows not what (Welsh Triad), 172; Never had a fool thorough enjoyment (Chesterfield), 363.
Forbearance: See Magnanimity, Patience, Retaliation, Anger.
forestalling: He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him (Proverbs),
53. Forethought. See Prudence.
Forgetfulness: Be able to forget (Gracian),
142; Draw the curtain of night upon in- juries (Browne), 302; Forgiveness the hardest lesson to man (Penn), 334; We forgive too little- forget too much (Swetchine), 438.
Fortitude: If thou findest anything better than fortitude, &c., turn to it. . . . It is a shame for the soul to give way when the body does not (Marcus Aurelius), 158, 159, 160; Suffering with fortitude the accidents of life a primary principle of wisdom (Welsh Triad), 171; Clearness of judgment leadeth us to fortitude. . . . If custom be strong to confirm one virtue more than another it is fortitude (Essex- Bacon), 273; May prudence, fortitude, and truth erect your brow (Burns), 423; Fortitude, that last virtue which crowns the others (Lacordaire), 453. See, also, Patience, Courage.
Fortune: What man calls fortune is from God (Pythagoras), 87; Things necessary to acquisition of fortune as difficult as those for obtaining virtue. . No man's fortune can be an end worthy of the gift of being (Bacon), 265-266; Leave off the game with fortune while in luck (Gra- cian), 284; Let not fortune, which hath no name in scripture, have any in thy divinity (Browne), 304; A noble spirit disdaineth the malice of fortune (Ches- terfield), 363. See, also, Lot in life, Pros- perity.
Franklin, Benjamin. Plan for acquiring habits of virtue, 376. Fraud. See Honesty.
Friendship: Make no friendship with a
man that is given to anger (Proverbs), 55; Have for friends the best of men (Dhammapada), 82; Choose out the man to virtue best inclined.
those eminently friends who assist your soul (Pythagoras), 86, 91; If thy friend be sick, go on foot and see him (Ahikar), 104; If thou wouldst get a friend, prove him first. A faithful friend is the medicine of life. . . . Change not a friend for any good. Forsake not an old friend; the new is not comparable. . . A friend cannot be known in prosperity. Admonish a friend; it may be he hath not done it (Ecclesiasticus), 117, 118, 119, 120, 122; I had rather lose my money than my friend (Erasmus), 212; Nothing more becoming any wise man than to make choice of friends (Raleigh),
254; The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul (Shakespeare), 281; Live with those from whom you can learn. . . . Make teachers of your friends. ... Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice (Gracian), 285, 286; Enter no serious friendship with the ingrateful man, the multiloquious man, the coward (Quarles), 289; There is more skill neces- sary to keep a friend than to reclaim an enemy. . . . Do not lay out your friend- ship too lavishly at first (Halifax), 315, 318, 319; Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death (Penn), 327; No blessing of life is comparable to the enjoyment of a discreet and virtuous friend (Addison), 354; A friend should bear with a friend's infirmities not his vices (Stanislaus), 358; In friendships and enmities, let your confidence and your hostilities have bounds (Chesterfield), 361; Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried. . . . True friend- ship is a plant of slow growth (Washing- ton) 399; Our chief want in life is some- body who shall make us do what we can (Emerson), 458. See, also, Companions. Frivolity. See Earnestness.
Frugality. See Expenditure. "Fruits of Solitude," selections from Penn's, 326. Fuller, Thomas. Holy State," 305.
Selections from "The
Gambling: Despise gambling. . . . If [a man] gaineth, he weaveth spider's webs (Maimonides), 169; Use not dicing nor carding (Ascham), 220; Be neither gam- bler nor thief. One is the occasion of the other (Mexican precept), 224; Re- frain from dicing (Lyly), 261; Gambling is a vice productive of every possible evil (Washington), 399; Stake in no lot- teries (Richter), 427. Generosity. See Magnanimity, Charity (of the Spirit), Benevolence, Giving. Geniality. See Good nature, Anger. Gentlemanliness. See Courtesy, Manners. Gentleness: A soft answer turneth away wrath (Proverbs), 54; Do not speak harshly to anybody (Dhammapada), 83; Be gentle in works and words (Ahikar), 104; Be gentle and mild to foes (Seneca), 142; He that speaks hastily is like a
Bestowing gifts on strangers while kindred starve. is cruelty disguised (Manu), 66, 69; Give to the giver, but the churl pass by. Men fill the giving, not the ungiving hand. Though much he give, the willing donor shall rejoice and live (Hesiod), 74; To bestow alms; ... to give help to kindred, the greatest blessing (Buddha), 80; Give, if thou art asked for little. Overcome
the greedy by liberality (Dhammapada), 84; Conquer a man who never gives by gifts. . . . He who is not rich and yet can give will be exalted (Maha-bharata), 95, 96; To give to the right person, at the right time, &c. not easy (Aristotle), 110; Turn not away from the needy. Give unto the good, and help not the sinner. . . . Lose thy money for thy brother and friend (Ecclesiasticus), 115, 120, 123; When thou doest alms sound not a trumpet (Jesus), 133; I have no possessions so real as those I have given to deserving people (Seneca), 141; Have compassion upon the needy. . . Take care that their faces be not put to the blush on account of your gifts (Maimo- nides), 168; Give to the poor whenever you have money. Be liberal in gifts
(Mediæval precept), 178, 179; Those that give with judgment find a delight (Essex-Bacon), 273, 275; Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous (Browne), 300; Giving what you do not want nor value neither brings nor de- serves thanks (Stanislaus), 358; Not every one who asketh deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry (Washington), 399; How can that gift leave a trace which has left no void (Swetchine), 437; Choose some poor per- son and relieve him regularly (Lacor-
daire), 453. See, also, Avarice, Benevo- lence.
Glory. See Fame.
Gluttony. See Temperance.
God. See Religious injunctions. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Selections from "Maxims and Reflections," 28, 29, 413.
Golden Rule, the: In the Maha-bharata (twice formulated), 8, 97; In Confucian Analects, 10, 101; In the sayings of Ahikar, 105; In the Sermon on the Mount, 17, 135.
"Golden Verses of Pythagoras," 86. Good. Desirable. The Best Esteem that eminently good which is increased to yourself when communicated to an- other (Pythagoras), 91; What is honor- able alone is good (Cicero), 127, 128; The highest good is a mind which despises the accidents of fortune and takes pleasure in virtue (Seneca), 138; Let whatever appears best be an inviolable law (Epicte- tus), 153; Happy is he ... who never understood. . . nor rules of state, but rules of good (Wotton), 282; He fixes good on good alone (Wordsworth), 430. See, also, Happiness. Good name, A. See Reputation. Good nature. Geniality. Benignity. Moroseness. Sullenness : Pleasant words are as an honeycomb (Proverbs), 54; The superior man is anxious that his countenance be benign (Confucius), 102; A merry heart maketh a cheer- ful countenance (Ecclesiasticus), 120; Smooth your way to the head thro' the heart. The most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire (Chesterfield), 361; Resolved to exhibit an air of love, cheerfulness and benig- nity. . . . When most conscious of pro- vocation, to strive most to feel good- naturedly (Edwards), 372, 374; Good humor one of the preservatives of peace and tranquillity (Jefferson), 407. Goodness: It is hard to be good (Aristotle), 110; Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit (Jesus), 136; No longer talk about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such (Marcus Aure- lius), 161; Reject death and evil; choose life and good; the option is given you (Maimonides), 165; Resolutions to strive for all qualities of goodness (Edwards), 366-374; Perfection is the measure of
heaven; the wish to be perfect the mea- sure of man (Goethe), 416; Desire no more intellect than is requisite for per- fect goodness (Swetchine), 437. See, also, Virtue, Righteousness. Gossip. Talebearing. Scandal: Do not repeat extravagances of language (Ptah- hotep), 37; Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer (Leviticus), 45; He that goeth about as a talebearer (Pro- verbs), 52; If thou hearest an evil word about any one hide it (Ahikar), 104; Be not called a whisperer. If thou hast
heard a word let it die with thee (Eccle- siasticus), 116, 121; Utter no ill-timed gossip (Spirit of Wisdom), 164; Of ab- sent persons I either say nothing or speak with kindness (Erasmus), 212; Carry no tales (Ascham), 219; If thou keepest clear of carrying tales and repeat- ing jests thou wilt keep clear of lying and of sowing discord (Mexican precept), 223, 224. See, also, Scandal, Speech. Gracian, Balthasar, selections from the maxims of, 284.
Habit. - Use. -Practice By virtuous use thy life and manners frame (Pythagoras), 89; For a test of the formation of habits take the pleasure or pain which succeeds the acts (Aristotle), 109; Accustom your- self to good morals, for the nature of man dependeth upon habit (Maimonides), 165; When there is a custom gotten of avoiding to do evil, then cometh a gentle courage (Wyatt), 236; Make such a habit of well- doing that you shall not know how to do evil (Sidney), 247; Where virtues are but budding they must be ripened by clearness of judgment and custom of well-doing (Essex-Bacon), 272, 273; Good methods and habits obtained in youth will make you happy the rest of your days (Penn), 332; Plan for acquiring
habits of virtue (Franklin), 376; Impor- tance of the habits acquired in the acqui- sition of knowledge (Washington), 400. Halifax, Lord. Selections from Moral Thoughts and "Advice to a Daughter,” 314, 316.
Happiness: Contentment is the root of happiness. Wouldst thou be happy, be thou moderate (Manu), 67; Happiness is the outcome of good. Let us live happily, though we call nothing our own (Dhammapada), 83; Seek happiness in deeds of virtue and usefulness (Maha- bharata), 96; Tranquillity renders life happy. The wise man is always happy. A happy life is comprised in honesty alone. . . . Happiness com- pounded of good things which alone are honorable (Cicero), 127, 128; Rules for a happy life (Seneca), 138; The happy life described by Martial, 143-147; If thou workest at that which is before thee, expecting nothing, fearing no- thing, thou wilt live happy. Enjoy life by joining one good thing to another, not to leave the smallest inter- val between (Marcus Aurelius), 159, 161, 162; The happy life described (Wotton), 282; Happiness lies in the taste, and not in things.. We are never so happy or unhappy as we imagine (La Roche- foucauld), 310; The great and constant pleasures of life, not to be crossed if one faithfully seeks happiness, are in health, reputation, knowledge, doing good, and the expectation of another world (Locke), 321-323; If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition (Penn), 328; Never was a wise man wholly unhappy (Chesterfield), 363; The happy man de- scribed (Cowper), 394; The happiest Iman is he who can link the end of his life with its commencement. . . . The happiest is he whose nature asks for nothing that the world does not wish and use (Goethe), 415, 416; Character of the happy warrior (Wordsworth), 429; Is not life sufficiently happy when it is useful (Swetchine), 437; What a man has in himself is the chief element in his happiness. . . . The two foes of happiness are pain and boredom. . . . The man whom nature has endowed with intellectual wealth is the happiest (Scho- penhauer), 441, 443; There is in man a higher than love of happiness: he can do
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