One always speaks badly
when one has nothing to say.
(Voltaire: Commentaries on Comeille.)
Μήνας: Σεπτέμβριος 2017
Broadhurst, «Praise undeserved…»
Praise undeserved
is satire in disguise.
(Broadhurst.)
Voltaire, «Satire..»
One needs a dash of satire
to enliven a eulogy.
(Voltaire.)
Bertrand Russell, «No one…»
No one gossips about
other people’s secret virtues.
(Bertrand Russell: On Education.)
Rabindranath Tagore, «He who is too busy…»
He who is too busy doing good
finds no time to be good.
(Rabindranath Tagore: Stray Birds.)
Comtesse Diane, «Conscience…»
Conscience warns us
before it reproaches us.
(Comtesse Diane: Maximes de la vie.)
Vauvenargues, «How many virtues…»
How many virtues and vices are unimportant!
(Vauvenargues: Reflections and Maxims.)
Hazlitt, «We as often repent the good…»
We as often repent the good
we have done as the ill.
(Hazlitt: Characteristics.)
Dr Johnson, «Shame…»
Shame operates most strongly in our earliest years.
(Dr Johnson: Notes upon Shakespeare.)
Mencius, «The path of duty…»
The path of duty lies in what is near,
and man seeks for it in what is remote.
(Mencius.)