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... qualities make great men . Seneca , is a gentleman ? The man , whom nature has disposed , and as it were cut out for virtue ; this man is well born indeed ; for he wants nothing else to make him noble , who has a mind so ge- nerous ...
... qualities make great men . Seneca , is a gentleman ? The man , whom nature has disposed , and as it were cut out for virtue ; this man is well born indeed ; for he wants nothing else to make him noble , who has a mind so ge- nerous ...
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... qualities united in him , without affecting any . For what need has a great man of any foreign aid to promote the regard that is due to his merit , when a certain air of noble simplicity , and forgetfulness of his own grandeur , will ...
... qualities united in him , without affecting any . For what need has a great man of any foreign aid to promote the regard that is due to his merit , when a certain air of noble simplicity , and forgetfulness of his own grandeur , will ...
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... qualities which are the soul of greatness , are a sort of incommu- nicable perfections , and cannot be transferred . Indeed , if a man could bequeath his virtues by will , and settle his sense and learning upon his heirs , as certainly ...
... qualities which are the soul of greatness , are a sort of incommu- nicable perfections , and cannot be transferred . Indeed , if a man could bequeath his virtues by will , and settle his sense and learning upon his heirs , as certainly ...
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... qualities often expose us to more hatred and persecution , than all the ill we do . Praise from the common people is generally false , and rather follows vain persons than virtuous . The common people are but ill judges of a man's ...
... qualities often expose us to more hatred and persecution , than all the ill we do . Praise from the common people is generally false , and rather follows vain persons than virtuous . The common people are but ill judges of a man's ...
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... qualities show but little favour to great virtnes . A lofty wisdom offends an or- dinary reason . Superiority in virtue is the most unpardonable provocation that can be given to a base mind . Innocence is too amiable to be beheld ...
... qualities show but little favour to great virtnes . A lofty wisdom offends an or- dinary reason . Superiority in virtue is the most unpardonable provocation that can be given to a base mind . Innocence is too amiable to be beheld ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
actions advice affliction Agesilaus agreeable Aristotle Assyrians Athenians beauty behaviour better body character charity Cicero commend common conceit conscience contempt conversation deserve discourse disoblige endeavour enemy entertaining envy Epictetus esteem evil excel falsehood fault favour fear flatterer folly fool fortune friendship give greatest happiness hear heart honest honour human human nature inti ISOCRATES judgment keep kind knowledge labour learning leisure liberty live lose man's mankind manner Marriage mean merit mind misery modesty nature ness never obliging opinion ourselves pain passion perity person philosophy Phocion Platonic pleasure Plutarch praise pride proper prudence quiring reason received rences reprove reputation revenge rich says sense Sesostris shews sion Socrates soul speak suffer superior sure talk temper temptation thing thou thought tion tongue true truth tural unhappy Vespasian vice virtue virtuous weak wealth wisdom wise worse worth Zeno
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 23 - In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved: but in his adversity even a friend will depart.