“On their own merits modest men are dumb.”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) English dramatist and writer
Epilogue to the Heir at Law, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Amongst the sons of men how few are known
Who dare be just to merit not their own?”
Epistle to William Hogarth (July 1763)
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
"Distichs" in The Poems of Goethe (1853) as translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring
Context: Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth;
Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.
James Thomson (poet) (1700–1748) Scottish writer (1700-1748)
Coriolanus, Act iii, scene 3; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Few sons, indeed, are like their fathers.
Generally they are worse; but just a few are better.”
II. 276–277 (tr. E. V. Rieu).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Source: The Odyssey
Rāmabhadrācārya (1950) Hindu religious leader
kausalyāsuprajā rāma pūrvā saṃdhyā pravartate ।
uttiṣṭha naraśārdūla karttavyaṃ daivamāhnikam ॥
Śrīsītārāmasuprabhātam
“He that owns himself has lost nothing. But how few men are blessed with ownership of self!”
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLII: On Values
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As quoted in Divine Harmony: The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras by John Strohmeier and Peter Westbrook (1999)
The Golden Verses
Context: You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles. Such is the fate that harms their minds; like pebbles they are tossed about from one thing to another with cares unceasing. For the dread companion Strife harms them unawares, whom one must not walk behind, but withdraw from and flee.
Desmond Leslie (1921–2001) British pilot, film maker, writer, and musician
The Amazing Mr. Lutterworth (1958)
“Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
On Sir William Temple (1838)