When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: Aren’t you ashamed you who walk backward along the whole path of existence and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?
Modesty is the color of virtue.
Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.”
The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
