210 ordspråk av Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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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
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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.
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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another
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To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill
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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.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind
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Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never
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War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
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We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
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We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
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