Friedrich Muller Man Quotations

Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man chooses, there he is respected.

If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found.

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

A man is not a supporter of the law because he talks much; even if a man has learnt little, but sees the law bodily, he is a supporter of the law, a man who never neglects the law.

A man is not an elder because his head is grey; his age may be ripe, but he is called 'Old-in-vain.'

He who does not rouse himself when it is time to rise, who, though young and strong, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle man will never find the way to knowledge.

If a man find a prudent companion who walks with him, is wise, and lives soberly, he may walk with him, overcoming all dangers, happy, but considerate.

If a man becomes fat and a great eater, if he is sleepy and rolls himself about, that fool, like a hog fed on wash, is born again and again.

Let a man walk alone, let him commit no sin, with few wishes, like an elephant in the forest.

The thirst of a thoughtless man grows like a creeper; he runs from life to life, like a monkey seeking fruit in the forest.