Hope humbles more than despair.

More proverbs about Wisdom

• Hunger costs little; daintiness much. Simple needs are cheaply met; refined tastes demand expensive indulgence.
• Jest not at another's infirmities. Mocking someone's weaknesses or afflictions breeds cruelty and diminishes your own humani…
• There's no joy without alloy. Pure pleasure is impossible; every good thing contains some mixture of difficulty or sorr…
• Joy surfeited turns to sorrow. Excessive pleasure breeds complacency and inevitable disappointment when abundance inevit…
• As easy kiss my hand. Dismissing something as trivially simple often blinds us to hidden difficulty or complexi…
• The ladle cools the pot. A subordinate's efforts can moderate or restrain a superior's excessive force or passion.