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... fall into error , when we study too much to please ; and the subject of our discourse is often weakened by this too curious care to give it an agreeable variety , which would be more strong , if it were more natural . We lose what is ...
... fall into error , when we study too much to please ; and the subject of our discourse is often weakened by this too curious care to give it an agreeable variety , which would be more strong , if it were more natural . We lose what is ...
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... attention : since shutting his eyes upon himself is an infallible way to open all the world's upon him ? If favor places a man above his equals , his fall places him below them . It is with followers at court , as with followers 50.
... attention : since shutting his eyes upon himself is an infallible way to open all the world's upon him ? If favor places a man above his equals , his fall places him below them . It is with followers at court , as with followers 50.
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... who least deserve them . Wherever there is flattery , there is always a fool in the case if the parasite be detected , it falls to his share ; if he be not , to his whom he deludes . It is frequent with many , upon every trivial matter 59.
... who least deserve them . Wherever there is flattery , there is always a fool in the case if the parasite be detected , it falls to his share ; if he be not , to his whom he deludes . It is frequent with many , upon every trivial matter 59.
الصفحة 63
... fall . The philosopher Bias , being asked , what an- imal he thought the most hurtful ? replied , that of wild creatures , a tyrant ; and of tame ones , a flatterer . Men of mean qualities show but little favour to great virtnes . A ...
... fall . The philosopher Bias , being asked , what an- imal he thought the most hurtful ? replied , that of wild creatures , a tyrant ; and of tame ones , a flatterer . Men of mean qualities show but little favour to great virtnes . A ...
الصفحة 65
... fall among crows , than flatterers ; for those only devour the dead , these the living . When the Athenians pulled down the statues of Demetrius Valerius , they cannot , he said , de- prive me of those virtues that caused them to be ...
... fall among crows , than flatterers ; for those only devour the dead , these the living . When the Athenians pulled down the statues of Demetrius Valerius , they cannot , he said , de- prive me of those virtues that caused them to be ...
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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.