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Politiker, Schriftsteller (England, 1678 - 1751).

Henry St. John Viscount Bolingbroke · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Henry St. John Viscount Bolingbroke wäre heute 345 Jahre, 6 Monate, 9 Tage oder 126.200 Tage alt.

Geboren am 10.10.1678
Gestorben am 12.12.1751
Sternzeichen: ♎ Waage

• Der bescheidener Forscher ist der, der wirklichen und sicheren Fortschritt bringt.
  • Fortschritt

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• Freiheit ist für die Gesellschaft das, was die Gesundheit für den einzelnen ist. Ohne Freiheit kann es kein Glück für die Gesellschaft geben.
  • Freiheit
  • Glück
  • Gesundheit

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• Geschichte ist eine Philosophie, die uns durch Beispiele lehrt.

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• Always to think the worst, I have ever found to be the mark of a mean spirit and a base soul.

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• Cunning . . . is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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• It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the cause of virtue.

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• Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

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• Nations, like men, have their infancy.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Pride is observed to defeat its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

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• The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws.

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• The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

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• They [Thucydides and Xenophon] maintained the dignity of history.

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• They make truth serve as a stalking-horse to error.

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• Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

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• We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

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• What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!

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