34 ordspråk av Daniel DeFoe
Daniel DeFoe
 Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. |
| Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. |
| Men are like pumpkins. It seems like all the good ones are either taken or they've had everything scraped out of their heads with a spoon. |
| Middle age is youth without its levity,/ And age without decay. |
| My man Friday (Robinson Crusoe) |
| Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could |
| Necessity makes an honest man a knave |
| One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand. |
| One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand. |
| Pride the first peer and president of hell. |
| The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late |
| The main street is the most spacious, the longest and best inhabited street in Europe... the buildings are surprising both for strength, for beauty, and for height... |
| The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear |
| They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and the like; and above all, upon their ancient heroes: their King Caractacus Owen ap Tudor, Prince Lewellin, and the like noblemen and princes of Britis |
| Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. |
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