It is not the place, not the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
Sir Roger L'Estrange (1616 - 1704)
Contributed by: Zaady
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
Source: Æsop’s Fables, Reflection
Though this may be play to you, 'T is death to us.
Source: Fables from Several Authors. Fable 398.
Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.