Jaisanthini World

FEAR: In extreme danger fear feels no pity. -Julius Caesar I will show you fear in a handful of dust. -T.S.Eliot:The Waste Land He that fears you present will hate you absent -Thomas Fuller We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. -Livy He must necessarily fear many, whom many fear. -Seneca

FAME: All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well. -Marcus Aurellius From Fame to infamy is a beaten road. -Thomas Fuller Those only deserve a monument who do not need one. -William Hazlitt Seldom comes Glorie till a man be dead. -Robert Herrick

FAITH: To believe only possibilities, is not faith, but mere Philosophy. -Thomas Browne In the affairs of this world, men are saved, not be faith, but by the want of it. -Benjamin Franklin Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. -Hebrews 11:1 Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favour of a greater. -O.W.Holmes If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of scepticism. -Nietzche

FAILURE: There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. -T.H.Huxley I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. -John Keats A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. -Elmer G.Letterman Failure is more often from want of energy than want of capital. -Daniel Webster

EGOTISM: He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. -Benjamin Franklin We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk of ourselves at all. -La Rochefoucauld It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he wishes to be esteemed. -Vauvenargues To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -Oscar Wilde

EDUCATION: The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but difficult to enslave. -Lord Brougham Only the educated are free. -Epictetus A student may easily...be learning not to live but to reason. -Samuel Johnson He that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master -Ben Johnson Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to the uneducated,"As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead." -Diogenes Laerlius I never let my schooling interfere with my educatin. -Mark Twain

ECONOMY: Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. -Edmund Burke Die to save charges. -Robert Burton In art, economy is always beauty. -Henry Burton Economy is the art of making the most of life. The love of economy is the root of all virtue. -G.B.Shaw