No one likes to be pitied for his faults.
(Vauvenargues: Reflections and Maxims.)
Συντάκτης: Θεοδόσης
Marquis de la Grange, «When we ask advice…»
When we ask advice
we are usually looking
for an accomplice.
(Marquis de la Grange: Pensées.)
Lord Chesterfeld, «Wrongs are often forgiven…»
Wrongs are often forgiven,
but contempt never is.
Our pride remembers it for ever.
(Lord Chesterfeld: Letters.)
Dylan Thomas, «Somebody’s boring me…»
Somebody’s boring me …
I think it’s me.
(Dylan Thomas.)
Thomas Fuller, «A stumble…»
A stumble may prevent a fall.
(Thomas Fuller (II): Gnomologia.)
Georg Büchner, «I cannot tell…»
I cannot tell what part of me
deceives the other.
(Georg Büchner: Danton’s Death.)
F. H. Bradley, «Up to a certain point…»
Up to a certain point
every man is what he thinks he is.
(F. H. Bradley: Aphorisms.)
Jules Renard, «Modesty…»
There is false modesty,
but there is no false pride.
(Jules Renard: Journal.)
Hannah Cowley, «Vanity…»
Vanity, like murder, will out.
(Hannah Cowley: The Belle’s Stratagem)
Rabindranath Tagore, «Praise…»
Praise shames me,
for I secretly beg it.
(Rabindranath Tagore: Stray Birds.)