Low-minded men are occupied solely with their own affairs, but noble-minded men take special interest in the affairs of others. The submarine fire drinks up the ocean, to fill its insatiable interior; the rain-cloud, that it may relieve the drought of the earth, burnt up by the hot season.
Bhartrihari.
486.
Those men are wise who do not desire the unattainable, who do not love to mourn over what is lost, and are not overwhelmed by calamities.
Mahābhārata.
487.
Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.
Plato.
488.
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.*