The Good Book_ A Secular Bible - A. C. Grayling [220]
43. Love abounds in honey and poison.
44. Love is the same in everyone.
45. Love is credulous.
46. What love commands, it is not safe to despise.
47. The lover loves much who weeps.
48. Love is the child of illusion, and the parent of disillusion.
49. Affection bends the judgement to her ply.
50. When affection speaks, truth is not always by.
Chapter 101: Mankind
1. Good people and bad people are both less so than they seem.
2. Humans are animals that make bargains.
3. Man is a gaming animal.
4. Man is a substance clad in shadows.
5. People are beasts when shame deserts them.
6. Man is to man the surest ill.
7. Human beings are mankind’s greatest enemy.
8. Customs vary, but human nature is always the same.
9. Nature revolves, but humanity advances.
10. No one is born learned and wise.
11. A human being is a mere reed, but a thinking reed.
12. For mankind, nothing is certain but death.
13. Nothing is more glorious or more wretched than humanity.
14. People too often talk wisely but live foolishly.
Chapter 102: Manners
1. Good breeding is the fruit of good sense.
2. As in the hall, so on the hill.
3. The sum of good manners is, ‘After you.’
4. Good manners consist in small sacrifices.
5. Manners make the man.
6. Manners are morals.
7. As the times, so the manners.
8. Evil communications corrupt good manners.
9. Office corrupts manners.
Chapter 103: Mind
1. A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a mountain cave to echoes.
2. Fat bodies, lean minds.
3. If the brain sows no corn, it grows thistles.
4. Whatever afflicts people, their minds are free.
5. In the end, mind vanquishes sword.
6. It is good to polish the mind against other minds.
7. It is the mind that ennobles, not the blood.
8. A noble mind is free to all.
9. Light minds love trifles.
10. The wise master their minds, fools are mastered by them.
11. Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
12. The mind alone cannot suffer exile.
13. The mind is the man.
14. To relax the mind is to lose it.
15. The mind rules, the body serves.
Chapter 104: Misers
1. A miser’s money takes the place of wisdom.
2. Misers put their backs and bellies into their pockets.
3. The miser gives straw to his dog and bones to his ass.
4. A miser spoils the coat by scanting the cloth.
5. Niggard father, spendthrift son.
6. The miser is always poor.
7. What misers have is of as much use to them as what they have not.
Chapter 105: Moderation
1. Measure is medicine.
2. The best things carried to excess are wrong.
3. In everything there is a measure.
4. Enough is enough for the wise.
Chapter 106: Money
1. One handful of money is stronger than two handfuls of truth.
2. A person without money is a bow without an arrow.
3. Help me to money and I will help myself to friends.
4. Everyone bastes the fat hog while the lean one burns.
5. For lack of money one cannot speed.
6. If money goes before, all ways lie open.
7. Money begets money.
8. Money is ace of trumps.
9. Money is often lost for want of money.
10. When fishing for man, money is the best bait.
11. Money is welcome though it come in dirty clothes.
12. Money makes us laugh.
13. Money makes mastery.
14. Money makes the pot boil.
15. Money makes, and money mars.
16. Ready money is a ready remedy.
17. The love of money and the love of learning seldom meet.
18. Liberty is the price paid for money.
19. Money is perfumed, wherever found.
20. There is no companion like money.
21. To have money is a fear, to lack it is a grief.
22. They need honey on their tongues who have no money in their purses.
23. Money has wings.
24. Money is never out of season.
25. Mention money, and the world is silent.
26. The person with both mind and money employs the latter well.
27. Money is the sinew of affairs.
28. The love of money grows with the amount of money.
29. You must spend money if you wish to make it.
30. When money speaks, truth is silent.
Chapter 107: Mothers
1. Better the child cry than the mother sigh.
2. A child may have too much of a mother’s blessing.