Joseph Addison citáty

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„Čítanie je pre myseľ, čo je cvičenie pre telo.“

„Človek, ktorý miluje, je ochotný tak dlho ustupovať, až sa ocitne na hranici zraniteľnosti svojej hrdosti.“

„Naše skutočné šťastie sa nám často zjavuje vo forme bolestí, strát a sklamaní; ale buďme trpezliví a čoskoro ho uvidíme v jeho najvlastnejšej podobe.“

„Čím je slnečný svit pre kvetiny, tým je úsmev pre ľudí.“

„Myslieť možno len rozumom, ale chápať len srdcom.“

„Hnev je príloha lásky. Patrí k nej ako šalát k ryži.“

„I veľká láska je len malou náhradou za prvú lásku.“

„Ľudskosť sa javí v tom, že tým, ktorých nemilujeme, prajeme aspoň šťastie.“

„Najväčšie šťastie života je istota v tom, byť milovaný pre seba samého, alebo, správnejšie, byť milovaný napriek sebe.“

„Všetko, čo je v láske bez problémov, je jej skazou.“

„Zbabelec je človek, ktorý v nebezpečí myslí nohami.“

„Nič nie je tak nestáleho v prírode ako dámsky účes.“

„Nejestvuje nič skutočne cenné, čo možno dosiahnuť bez práce a námahy.“

„Najlepší spôsob lichotenia je nechať hovoriť druhého a zároveň byť jeho poslucháčom.“

„Čas je brusný kotúč, ktorý tie surové milostné záležitosti dvoch ľudí najprv vybrúsi do náležitej“

„Človek sa odlišuje od všetkých ostatných stvorení schopnosťou smiechu.“

„Požičiavateľ peňazí vám poslúži v prítomnom čase, požičia vám v podmieňovacom spôsobe, udržiava vás v konjuktíve a zničí vás v budúcnosti.“

„Vedomosti sú v skutočnosti to, čo okrem cnosti pozdvihuje jedného človeka nad druhého.“

„Žena zriedka žiada o radu predtým, ako si kúpila svadobné šaty.“

„Deň, hodina počestnej slobody stojí za celú večnosť v poddanstve.“

„Dokonalá tragédia je najvznešenejším výtvorom ľudskej povahy.“

„Keď sa muž bližšie zoznámi so svojou bohyňou, tá rýchlo klesne na ženu.“

“The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which a good thing may pass over unobserved, or be lost among commissions of bankrupt.”

“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”

“Our disputants put me in mind of the skuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible.”

“The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.”

“With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.”

“There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.”

“Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer.”

“On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,
And from your judgment must expect my fate.”

“When hosts of foes with foes engage,
And round th' anointed hero rage,
The cleaving fauchion I misguide,
And turn the feather'd shaft aside.”

“I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.”

“O ye powers that search
The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,
If I have done amiss, impute it not!
The best may err, but you are good.”

“Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.”

“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief, and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.”

“Jesters do often prove prophets.”

“Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.”

“Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.”

“There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.”

“What means this heaviness that hangs upon me?
This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?
Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care,
Sinks down to rest.”

“Rais'd of themselves, their genuine charms they boast,
And those who paint them truest praise them most.”

“The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amidst the wars of elements,
The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.”

“When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.”

“I would… earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as a part of the tea equipage.”

“A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.”

“Blessings may appear under the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let him have patience, and he will see them in their proper figures.”

“If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.”

“To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.”

“Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.”

“Better to die ten thousand deaths,
Than wound my honour.”

“A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.”