something new
I cannot .  .  .  Say rather: I will
not

I know that I am of use

I have never deviated from the exact
truth even in jest

I was not swift to anger, nor a liar,
nor a violent ruler

I do not like to enquire about our fate
beyond the grave

Idleness had long since grown to be the
occupation of his life

If you want to catch mice you must
waste bacon

If one only knew who it is all for

If it were right we should not want to
hide ourselves

If speech be silver, silence then is
gold!

Ill-judgment to pronounce a thing
impossible

Impartial looker-on sees clearer than
the player

In order to find himself for once in
good company--(Solitude)

In whom some good quality or other may
not be discovered

In those days men wept, as well as
women

In this immense temple man seemed a
dwarf in his own eyes

In our country it needs more courage to
be a coward

In war the fathers live to mourn for
their slain sons

Inn, was to be found about every
eighteen miles

Inquisitive eyes are intrusive company

Introduced a regular system of
taxation-Darius

It is not seeing, it is seeking that is
delightful

It was such a comfort once more to obey
an order

It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics
that we defeat a foe

It is the passionate wish that gives
rise to the belief

Jealousy has a thousand eyes

Judge only by appearances, and never
enquire into the causes

Kisra called wine the soap of sorrow

Know how to honor beauty; and prove it
by taking many wives

Last Day we shall be called to account
for every word we utter

Laugh at him with friendly mockery,
such as hurts no man

Laughing before sunrise causes tears at
evening

Learn early to pass lightly over little
things

Learn to obey, that later you may know
how to command

Life is not a banquet

Life is a function, a ministry, a duty

Life is the fairest fairy tale
(Anderson)

Life is valued so much less by the
young

Life had fulfilled its pledges

Like the cackle of hens, which is
peculiar to Eastern women

Like a clock that points to one hour
while it strikes another

Love has two faces: tender devotion and
bitter aversion

Love means suffering--those who love
drag a chain with them

Love which is able and ready to endure
all things

Love laughs at locksmiths

Love is at once the easiest and the
most difficult

Love overlooks the ravages of years and
has a good memory

Loved himself too much to give his
whole affection to any one

Lovers delighted in nature then as now

Lovers are the most unteachable of
pupils

Maid who gives hope to a suitor though
she has no mind to hear

Man, in short, could be sure of nothing

Man works with all his might for no one
but himself

Man is the measure of all things

Man has nothing harder to endure than
uncertainty

Many creditors are so many allies

Many a one would rather be feared than
remain unheeded

Marred their best joy in life by
over-hasty ire

May they avoid the rocks on which I
have bruised my feet

Medicines work harm as often as good

Men studying for their own benefit, not
the teacher's

Men folks thought more about me than I
deemed convenient

Mirrors were not allowed in the convent

Misfortune too great for tears

Misfortunes commonly come in couples
yoked like oxen

Misfortunes never come singly

Money is a pass-key that turns any lock

More to the purpose to think of the
future than of the past

Mosquito-tower with which nearly every
house was provided

Most ready to be angry with those to
whom we have been unjust

Multitude who, like the gnats, fly
towards every thing brilliant

Museum of Alexandria and the Library

Must take care not to poison the fishes
with it

Must--that word is a ploughshare which
suits only loose soil

Natural impulse which moves all old
women to favor lovers

Nature is sufficient for us

Never speaks a word too much or too
little

Never so clever as when we have to find
excuses for our own sins

Never to be astonished at anything

No judgment is so hard as that dealt by
a slave to slaves

No man is more than man, and many men
are less

No man was allowed to ask anything of
the gods for himself

No good excepting that from which we
expect the worst

No,  she was not created to grow old

No happiness will thrive on bread and
water

No one we learn to hate more easily,
than the benefactor

No man gains profit by any experience
other than his own

No false comfort, no cloaking of the
truth

No one so self-confident and insolent
as just such an idiot

No virtue which can be owned like a
house or a steed

Nobody was allowed to be perfectly idle

None of us really know anything rightly

Not yet fairly come to the end of
yesterday

Nothing in life is either great or
small

Nothing is perfectly certain in this
world

Nothing permanent but change

Nothing so certain as that nothing is
certain

Nothing is more dangerous to love, than
a comfortable assurance

Numbers are the only certain things

Observe a due proportion in all things

Obstacles existed only to be removed

Obstinacy--which he liked to call firm
determination

Of two evils it is wise to choose the
lesser

Often happens that apparent superiority
does us damage

Old women grow like men, and old men
grow like women

Old age no longer forgets; it is youth
that has a short memory

Olympics--The first was fixed 776 B.C.

Omnipotent God, who had preferred his
race above all others

On with a new love when he had left the
third bridge behind him

Once laughed at a misfortune, its sting
loses its point

One falsehood usually entails another

One of those women who will not bear to
be withstood

One should give nothing up for lost
excepting the dead

One hand washes the other

One must enjoy the time while it is
here

One who stood in the sun must need cast
a shadow on other folks

One Head, instead of three, ruled the
Church

Only the choice between lying and
silence

Only two remedies for heart-sickness:--
hope and patience

Ordered his feet to be washed and his
head anointed

Our thinkers are no heroes, and our
heroes are no sages

Overbusy friends are more damaging than
intelligent enemies

Overlooks his own fault in his feeling
of the judge's injustice

Ovid, 'We praise the ancients'

Pain is the inseparable companion of
love

Papyrus Ebers

Patronizing friendliness

Pays better to provide for people's
bodies than for their brains

People who have nothing to do always
lack time

People see what they want to see

Perish all those who do not think as we
do

Philosophers who wrote of the vanity of
writers

Phrase and idea "philosophy of
religion" as an absurdity

Pilgrimage to the grave, and death as
the only true life

Pious axioms to be repeated by the
physician, while compounding

Pleasant sensation of being a woman,
like any other woman

Possess little and require nothing

Pray for me, a miserable man--for I was
a man

Precepts and lessons which only a
mother can give

Prefer deeds to words

Preferred a winding path to a straight
one

Prepare sorrow when we come into the
world

Prepared for the worst; then you are
armed against failure

Pretended to see nothing in the old
woman's taunts

Priests that they should instruct the
people to be obedient

Priests: in order to curb the unruly
conduct of the populace

Principle of over-estimating the
strength of our opponents

Provide yourself with a self-devised
ruler

Rapture and anguish--who can lay down
the border line

Readers often like best what is most
incredible

Reason is a feeble weapon in contending
with a woman

Refreshed by the whip of one of the
horsemen

Regard the utterances and mandates of
age as wisdom

Regular messenger and carrier-dove
service had been established

Remember, a lie and your death are one
and the same

Repeated the exclamation: "Too late!"
and again, "Too late!"

Repos ailleurs

Repugnance for the old laws began to
take root in his heart

Required courage to be cowardly

Resistance always brings out a man's
best powers

Retreat behind the high-sounding words
"justice and law"

Robes cut as to leave the right breast
uncovered

Romantic love, as we know it, a result
of Christianity

Rules of life given by one man to
another are useless

Scarcely be able to use so large a sum--
Then abuse it

Scorned the censure of the people, he
never lost sight of it

Sea-port was connected with Medina by a
pigeon-post

Seditious words are like sparks, which
are borne by the wind

See facts as they are and treat them
like figures in a sum

Seems most charming at the time we are
obliged to resign it

Self-interest and egoism which drive
him into the cave

Sent for a second interpreter

Shadow which must ever fall where there
is light

Shadow of the candlestick caught her
eye before the light

She would not purchase a few more years
of valueless life

Shipwrecked on the cliffs of 'better'
and 'best'

Should I be a man, if I forgot
vengeance?

Shuns the downward glance of compassion

Sing their libels on women (Greek
Philosophers)

Sky as bare of cloud as the rocks are
of shrubs and herbs

Sleep avoided them both, and each knew
that the other was awake

Smell most powerful of all the senses
in awakening memory

So long as we are able to hope and wish

So long as we do not think ourselves
wretched, we are not so

So hard is it to forego the right of
hating

Some caution is needed even in giving a
warning

Soul which ceases to regard death as a
misfortune finds peace

Speaking ill of others is their
greatest delight

Spoilt to begin with by their mothers,
and then all the women

Standing still is retrograding

Strongest of all educational powers--
sorrow and love

Successes, like misfortunes, never come
singly

Take heed lest pride degenerate into
vainglory

Talk of the wolf and you see his tail

Temples would be empty if mortals had
nothing left to wish for

Temples of the old gods were used as
quarries

Tender and uncouth natural sounds,
which no language knows

That tears were the best portion of all
human life

The heart must not be filled by
another's image

The blessing of those who are more than
they seem

The past belongs to the dead; only
fools count upon the future

The priests are my opponents, my
masters

The carp served on Christmas eve in
every Berlin family

The gods cast envious glances at the
happiness of mortals

The past must stand; it is like a scar

The man who avoids his kind and lives
in solitude

The beautiful past is all he has to
live upon

The altar where truth is mocked at

The older one grows the quicker the
hours hurry away

The shirt is closer than the coat

The beginning of things is not more
attractive

The mother of foresight looks backwards