Charles Caleb Colton citáty

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

—  Charles Caleb Colton

„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

„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
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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; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; CLXXXIII
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„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
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„Those illustrious men, who, like torches, have consumed themselves, in order to enlighten others, have often lived unrewarded, and died unlamented. But the tongues of aftertimes have done them justice in one sense, but injustice in another. They have honoured them with their praise, but they have disgraced them with their pity. They pity them forsooth, because they missed of present praise, and temporal emolument; things great indeed to the little, but little to the great.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; DLXXV
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„It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the same direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her footsteps, has further to go, before she can arrive at the truth, than ignorance.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; I
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„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
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„Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; XXV
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Varianta: Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

„Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

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

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; XXXIII
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„If we can advance any propositions that are both true and new, these are indisputably our own, by right of discovery; and if we can repeat what is old more briefly and brightly than others, this also becomes our own, by right of conquest.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton

Preface
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