210 ordspråk av Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton föddes 1780 och dog 1832
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 To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

 To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us

 To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

 To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another

 To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill

 To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

 True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

 True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

 True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

 Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind

 Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved

 War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never

 War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

 We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

 We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.


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