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. |
| 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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