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الصفحة 28
... a mind to say , than upon making pertinent replies to what the rest of the company say to him . To one you find full of questions , it is best to make no answer at all . Modesty in your discourse will give a lustre to truth 28.
... a mind to say , than upon making pertinent replies to what the rest of the company say to him . To one you find full of questions , it is best to make no answer at all . Modesty in your discourse will give a lustre to truth 28.
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... answered , As often as I behold the turning of the wheel ( in which that part which is now lowest is presently highest , and the highest presently lowest ) it puts me in mind of our for- tune . Whereat Sesostris being moved , gave them ...
... answered , As often as I behold the turning of the wheel ( in which that part which is now lowest is presently highest , and the highest presently lowest ) it puts me in mind of our for- tune . Whereat Sesostris being moved , gave them ...
الصفحة 54
... answer ; Sire , the duke de Guise does good to all the world without exception , either directly by himself or in- directly by his recommendations he is civil , courteous , liberal : has always some good to say of every body , but never ...
... answer ; Sire , the duke de Guise does good to all the world without exception , either directly by himself or in- directly by his recommendations he is civil , courteous , liberal : has always some good to say of every body , but never ...
الصفحة 64
... answer not the value that is set upon it ( as it commonly happens ) general opinion revolts from the impostor , and makes the flatterer and flattered both ridiculous . There is this good in commendation , that it helps to confirm men in ...
... answer not the value that is set upon it ( as it commonly happens ) general opinion revolts from the impostor , and makes the flatterer and flattered both ridiculous . There is this good in commendation , that it helps to confirm men in ...
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... answer of Diogenes , who being asked in mockery , why philosophers were the fol- lowers of rich men , and not rich men of philoso phers ; replied , because the one knew what they had need of , and the other did not . Though want is the ...
... answer of Diogenes , who being asked in mockery , why philosophers were the fol- lowers of rich men , and not rich men of philoso phers ; replied , because the one knew what they had need of , and the other did not . Though want is the ...
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الصفحة 115 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
الصفحة 7 - THE Liberty of a people consists in being governed by Laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of Government. The Liberty of a private man in being Master of his own Time and Actions, as far as may consist with the Laws of God and of his Country. Of this latter only we are here to discourse, and to enquire what estate of Life does best seat us in the possession of it.
الصفحة 107 - Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose ; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity. Sloth...
الصفحة 194 - What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, the wise, the good, or the great man, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have dis-interred, and have brought to light.
الصفحة 108 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise ; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self ; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions...
الصفحة 206 - The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy ; but then let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish, else a man's enemy is still beforehand, and it is two for one.
الصفحة 113 - There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and, therefore, men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions in smother.
الصفحة 106 - Methinks I hear some of you say, Must a Man afford himself no Leisure? I will tell thee, my Friend, what Poor Richard says, Employ thy Time well if thou meanest to gain Leisure; and, since thou art not sure of a Minute, throw not away an Hour.
الصفحة 16 - A GOOD conscience is to the soul what health is to the body : it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can possibly befal us.
الصفحة 23 - In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved: but in his adversity even a friend will depart.