Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but ...woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he asked the first, How much do you owe my master?' He answered, A hundred jugs o...f olive oil.' He said to him, Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it fifty.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are on the way to court with him, or your accuser may hand you over to the judge..., and the judge to the guard, and you will be thrown into prison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that become...s suspicious will quickly be corrupt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New Yorkers speak more quickly and shift topics more rapidly. We all know that. But the way it's done is fascinating. At least it ...fascinated me when I first moved to New York. Someone has the floor and talks. As soon as I know what they are going to say, I can jump in, finish the sentence to show I understand, and take off into my own turn. The northern California I know isn't like that. Someone talks, and I lie back and listen and let them roll for a while. When they're done, there'll be a pause that will flash like a green light to announce that someone else can have the floor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tired, she looked up the path... her lover would take as far as her eyes could see. On the roads, traffic ceased at the end of day as night slid over the sky. The traveller's pained wife took a single step towards home, said, "Could he not have come at this instant?" and quickly craning her neck around, looked up the path again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now h...igh time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they ar...e most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »