The Good Book_ A Secular Bible - A. C. Grayling [219]
4. What we spent we have; what we gave came back doubled; what we lent we lost.
5. Loans do not come laughing home, but stay abroad as enemies.
6. If you would lend, lend only what you can lose.
7. If you have enough to lend, you have enough to give; and gain more by it.
Chapter 96: Liars
1. Liars begin by deceiving others, and end by deceiving themselves.
2. Old folk and great travellers lie by licence; lawyers lie for pay.
3. Why say ‘Show me a liar and I’ll show you a thief’? Because liars steal trust.
4. When the liar speaks true, is he believed? Does the liar believe even the honest man?
5. The liar more readily takes an oath.
6. The liar is sooner caught than one who cannot run.
7. The liar is less happy than the sufferer for truth.
8. The liar has no real friend.
9. Liars have least respect for other people.
10. Liars have least respect from other people.
Chapter 97: Liberty
1. Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.
2. Liberty is not licence.
3. The price of liberty is unsleeping vigilance.
4. Better a crust in liberty than sweetmeats in prison.
5. Liberty is the breath of progress.
6. Liberty is the free man’s country.
Chapter 98: Lies
1. Half the truth is often a great lie.
2. Who hears much, hears many lies.
3. The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
4. Lies grow with repetition.
5. There is no lie so reckless as lacks some proof.
6. You can travel far with a lie, but you cannot come back.
Chapter 99: Life
1. Life is short and full of blisters.
2. A long life might not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
3. To live well is to live long.
4. Life is all in this present hour.
5. Life is short and time is swift.
6. They do not live more who live longer.
7. Life is a school of probability.
8. Life is a lesson in humility.
9. Life is a loom, weaving illusions.
10. Life is a winter’s day and a winter’s way.
11. The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.
12. Many do not live, but linger.
13. Do not look for a golden life in an iron age.
14. While I live, let it not be in vain.
15. Not life itself, but living ill, is evil.
16. They live badly who are always about to begin living.
17. We live not as we wish but as we can.
18. As long as one lives, one must continue learning how to live.
Chapter 100: Love
1. Love makes any place agreeable.
2. We have a choice to begin love, but not to end it.
3. Love knows no laws or conditions.
4. Dry bread is better with love than a fat capon with fear.
5. They who have love in their hearts have spurs in their sides.
6. Hope is a lover’s staff.
7. The lover is no judge of beauty.
8. In love there is no lack.
9. Labour is light where love pays.
10. Love and ambition do not keep fellowship.
11. Love and pride are both roads to lunacy.
12. Love and sorrow were born twins.
13. Love built on beauty fades as soon as it ages.
14. Hasty love is soon hot and soon cold.
15. Love is more than great riches.
16. Love is master where he will.
17. Love is the noblest frailty of the mind.
18. Calf love, half love; old love, cold love.
19. Love is the salt of life.
20. Love is too young to know what conscience is.
21. Love has neither reason nor law.
22. Love keeps out the cold better than a cloak.
23. Love knows no measure.
24. There is beggary in the love that can be counted.
25. Love laughs at locksmiths.
26. The lover is a monarch.
27. Love needs no instruction.
28. Pity is one remove from love.
29. She loves enough who does not hate.
30. Come blows, love goes.
31. Love is a hearth for forbidden fires.
32. Love is a talkative passion.
33. Love is an egoism of two.
34. Love is stronger than death.
35. Love makes time pass; time makes love pass.
36. Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
37. The beloved is always right.
38. Love lessens women’s delicacy, and increases men’s.
39. Love’s anger is fuel to love.
40. Lovers take pleasure from their misfortunes.
41. Love excuses its own faults.
42. Love is blind, but sees far.