John Milton citáty

„Samota je někdy nejlepší společnost.“

„Co má noc společného se spánkem?“

„Kdo zabíjí člověka, zabíjí rozumnou bytost. Kdo však zabíjí dobrou knihu, zabíjí rozum sám.“

„Duch člověka, který Bůh vdechl, nemůže zahynout s tělesnou schránkou.“

„Co tě nezabije, to tě posílí“

„Hluboko sběhlý v knihách, v něm samém mělčina.“

„Kdo knihu zabíjí, zabíjí myšlení samotné.“

„Kdo knihu zabíjí, zabíjí myšlení samotné.“

„Mysl je místo samo o sobě, které samo sobě může udělat nebe z pekla a peklo z nebe.“

„Dlouhá a těžká je cesta z pekla ven, po níž míříš ke světlu.´´“

„Je mnohem snadnější vládnout zemi než ženě.“

„Ženaje nejdokonalejší, když je neženštější.“

„Špatné knížky mohou rozumnému a moudrému čtenáři sloužit k tomu, aby něco objevil, vyvrátil nebo osvětlil.“

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”

“The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.”

“Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.”

“And, when night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.”

“Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

“What though the field be lost?
All is not Lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And the courage never to submit or yeild.”

“What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support,
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men. 1
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.”

“The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. / What matter where, if I be still the same…”

“Without the meed of some melodious tear.”

“As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.”

“While the cock with lively din
Scatters the rear of darkness thin,
And to the stack, or the barn door,
Stoutly struts his dames before,
Oft list'ning how the hounds and horn
Cheerly rouse the slumb'ring morn.”

“What hath night to do with sleep?”

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”

“Solitude sometimes is best society.”

“Freely we serve
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”

“I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own.”

“Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most
When most unactive deemed”

“But he, though blind of sight,
Despised, and thought extinguished quite,
With inward eyes illuminated,
His fiery virtue roused
From under ashes into sudden flame,”

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”

“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”

“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”

“Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.”

“Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep…”

“Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear”

“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”

“I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night,
Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down
The dark descent, and up to reascend…”

“Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.”

“Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”