Source: Epigrams, p. 345
"Goodbye school" in Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984)
Dogs
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
“There is no liar like the one who lies to himself. He has a fool indeed for an audience.”
Source: Short fiction, Dragonfield and Other Stories (1985), The Bull & the Crowth (p. 122)
“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
Variant: He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
“The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense — he is always satisfied with himself.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“In limitations he first shows himself the master,
And the law can only bring us freedom.”
Was Wir Bringen (1802)
“We do not learn this only from the event, which is the master of fools.”
Book XXII, sec. 39
History of Rome
“Only when he has suffered does the fool learn.”
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 218.
