Charles Caleb Colton citáty

„Vždy je bezpečné učit se i od svých nepřátel, málokdy je však bezpečné učit se od vlastních přátel.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

„Zkoušky jsou hrozné i pro nejlépe připraveného, protože i ten největší hlupák se může tázat víc, než může nejmoudřejší odpovědět.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

„Skutečné přátelství je jako pevné zdraví; stěží se uvědomujeme jeho hodnotu, dokud o něj nepřijdeme.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

„Člověk je ztělesněný paradox, uzlík protikladů.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

„Chceš-li mít nepřátele, vyzvedej se nad ně. Chceš-li mít přátele, dovol jim vyniknout nad tebou.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

„Ten, jenž se nelíbí nikomu, není tak hoden politování jako ten, jemuž se nikdo nelíbí.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

„Jestli chceš být znám a nic nevědět, přebývej na vesnici; jestli chceš vědět a nebýt znám, žij ve městě.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Daniel Weis: Everlasting Wisdom, Paragon Publishing, Rothersthorpe, 2010, ISBN 978-1-907611-48-3, přeložil Zdeněk Vrbík

„Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. II; LXXXIII
Lacon

„When you have nothing to say, say nothing;“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; CLXXXIII
Lacon
Kontext: When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

„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;“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; CCCCXXVII (7th Edition, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, in 1821)
Lacon
Kontext: 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.

„This tendency, however, to ascribe an universality of genius to great men, led Dryden to affirm, on the strength of two smart satyrical lines, that Virgil could have written a satire equal to Juvenal. But, with all due deference to Dryden, I conceive it much more manifest, that Juvenal could have written a better epic than Virgil, than that Virgil could have written a satire equal to Juvenal. Juvenal has many passages of the moral sublime far superior to any that can be found in Virgil, who, indeed, seldom attempts a higher flight than the sublime of description. Had Lucan lived, he might have rivalled them both, as he has all the vigour of the one, and time might have furnished him with the taste and elegance of the other.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; CCCCXII
Lacon (1820)

„That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Preface
Lacon (1820)

„With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. II; XVII
Lacon (1820)

„Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory—of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. II; XXXVIII
Lacon (1820)

„Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; CCCXXII
Lacon (1820)

„Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right, without them.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; XLVIII
Lacon (1820)

„None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; XL
Lacon (1820)

„Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause, without obtaining it, than obtain, without deserving it; if it follow them, it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it. With inferior minds the reverse is observable.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; VI
Lacon (1820)

„He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; XXXIII
Lacon (1820)