No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.If you don’t act right it will come back to haunt you; your life will be tied up with complications.
Reginald Poe Carelock
No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.If you don’t act right it will come back to haunt you; your life will be tied up with complications.
Pay what you owe, and you’ll know what’s your own.Basically, you don’t really own what is not paid for as we have seen so often recently with all of the house foreclosures. If you don’t keep up with your payments you don’t really own even your own house.
Hear no ill of a Friend, nor speak any of an Enemy.It is better to speak well of a friend and keep him your friend, and by not speaking badly about an enemy you make things no worse and it may make things better. This is just being very smart in how you deal with people.
If thou injurest Conscience, it will have its Revenge on thee.If you ignore your conscience you do so at your own risk – you may end up in trouble.
Honour thy Father and Mother, i.e. Live so as to be an Honour to them tho’ they are dead.Remember and live the values of your Father and Mother because if you do you honor them even when they are gone.
Pollio, who values nothing that’s within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, — for their Skin.The world is full of people who see only the glitzy and the superficial not their real value.
No Resolution of Repenting hereafter, can be sincere.Saying that you will change your bad habits, not now but later, is not believable.
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.Knowledge is a double edged sword, it can be used for good but also evil.
Let thy Discontents be Secrets.It is better to keep your own counsel than to vent and expose your unhappiness and/or weaknesses.
Rather go to bed supperless, than run in debt for a Breakfast.It is better to have discipline and to live within your means than to ransom your future today.
Let thy Child’s first Lesson be Obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.Teaching a child to obey the parent makes all the other lessons that a parent needs to teach a child easy.
He that falls in love with himself, will have no Rivals.This is an ironic and humorous way of saying that extreme conceitedness is isolating and ultimately destructive.
Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.Keeping your needs and expectations simple will allow you to count your blessings no matter what you receive rather than being constantly disappointed, and therefore unhappy, about what you don’t receive.
Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.Historians, and really all of us, impose our own view on events, not necessarily what actually happened. This is where our biases distort the truth.
Each year one vicious habit rooted out, In time might make the worst Man good throughout.Make a New Year’s resolution to improve yourself and over time you will be a better person; make positive changes one at a time but over time they will add up to make you a better person.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices.Look for the best in others and find your own faults and correct them.
Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.Don’t be overly critical, people who live in glass houses should not cast stones.
There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.Don’t be a copycat but copy good behavior in your own way and for the right reasons.
Drive thy business; let not that drive thee.Be a leader don’t be led by circumstances, anticipate situations and solutions don’t just react when they happen.