Zitate von Charles Caleb Colton
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Prüfungen sind deshalb so scheußlich, weil der größte Trottel mehr fragen kann, als der klügste Mensch zu beantworten vermag.
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Aphoristiker, Essayist, Geistlicher (England, 1780 - 1832).
Charles Caleb Colton · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Charles Caleb Colton wäre heute 244 Jahre, 4 Monate, 0 Tage oder 89.241 Tage alt.
Geboren am 01.01.1780 in London
Gestorben am 28.04.1832 in Fontainebleau
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Weitere 131 Zitate von Charles Caleb Colton
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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
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The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect; viz.: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm, than what will do good.
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The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
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The victim of too severe a law is considered a martyr, rather than a criminal.
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There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despise them.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
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There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: He that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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There is this good in real evils, - they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
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Though the proportion of those who think be extremely small, yet every individual flatters himself that he is one of the number.
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Times of general calamity and confusion have never been productive of the greatest mind. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
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To commit the execution of a purpose to one who disapproves of the plan of it is to employ but onethird of the man; his heart and his head are against you, you have commanded only his hands.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed, it betrays us.
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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 seek it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.