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

„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

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

—  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
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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;“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

—  Charles Caleb Colton

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

„AMBITION is to the mind, what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower, by reason of our blindness. But alas, when we are at the summit of a vain ambition, we are also at the depth of real misery. We are placed where time cannot improve, but must impair us; where chance and change cannot befriend, but may betray us; in short, by attaining all we wish, and gaining all we want, we have only reached a pinnacle, where we have nothing to hope, but every thing to fear.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol I; XXXVII
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)

„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)

„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)

„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)

„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)

„Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; VIII
Lacon (1820)