He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.