Rosicrucian Beacon Magazine - 2013-06 - AMORC

the longer he thought about it, the more difficulthe found it.• Come to the point. Why? I shall not find you there.• Solon said to Croesus when in ostentation Croesusshowed him his gold: “Sir, if anyone comes that hasbetter iron than you, he will be master of all this gold.”• The glory of God is to conceal a thing, and the gloryof a man is to find out a thing.• He that resolves in haste repents at leisure.• Croesus told Cambyses that peace was better thanwar; because in peace the sons buried their fathers,but in wars the fathers buried their sons.• In Chancery, the counsels of the parties set forthby plot the boundaries of the land in question. Thecounsel of one party said, “We lie on this side, myLord;” and the counsel of the other party said, “We[also] lie on this side.” The Lord Chancellor Hattonstood up and said, “If you lie on both sides, whomwill you have me believe?”• Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.• Solon compared the people to the sea, and oratorsto the winds: The sea would be calm and quiet ifthe winds did not trouble it.• There was a young man in Rome who looked verymuch like Augustus Caesar. Augustus heard of it,sent for the man, and asked him: “Was your mothernever at Rome?” The man answered: “ No sir, butmy father was.”• An orator of Athens said to Demosthenes :“The Athenians will kill you if they wax mad.”Demosthenes replied: “And they will kill you, ifthey be in good sense.”• After Themistocles had been banished, he came intogreat favour and was honoured and sumptuouslyserved. In his glory he said to one of his friends: “IfI had not been undone, I had been undone.”• Bacon was wont to say of an angry man whosuppressed his passion “…that he thought worse thanhe spoke,” and of an angry man that would chide, “…that he spoke worse than he thought.”• All is not in years, somewhat is in hours well spent.• Sir Robert Hitcham said he cared not that menlaughed at him, for he would laugh at them too. MyLord St Alban answered, that if he did so he wouldbe the merriest man in England.• Bishop Latimer said in a sermon at court, that hehad heard the King was poor and many ways werepropounded to make him rich. For his part he hadthought of one way, which was that they shouldhelp the King to some good office, for all his officerswere rich.• Antisthenes, on being asked what learning was mostnecessary for man’s life, answered: “To unlearn thatwhich is naught.”• Cato Major would say that wise men learned morefrom fools, than fools from wise men.• Better to be envied than pitied.• When examined about certain scandalous wordsthat had been spoken against the King, someonesaid: “It is true that I spoke them, and if the winehad not failed I would have said much more.”• Cosimo, Duke of Florence, was wont to say ofperfidious friends: “We read that we ought to forgiveour enemies; but we do not read that we ought toforgive our friends.”• An Epicurean boasted that philosophers of variousother sects turned to Epicureanism, but Epicureansnever turned to the philosophies of other sects.Whereupon a philosopher of another sect said:“The reason is plain, for cocks may be made capons,but capons can never be made cocks.”• When a certain nimble-witted counsellor at the barwho was forward in speech, repeatedly interruptedSir Nicholas Bacon, the latter said: “There is a greatdifference between you and me; a pain to me to speak,and a pain to you to hold your tongue.”• Thales said that life and death were all one. Whenasked: “Why do not you die then?” Thales said again:“Because they all are one.”• Use Maketh Mastery.© Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC The Rosicrucian Beacon -- June 201333