A pequena vida é curta para ser muito

Chwytanie okazji pierwszą najważniejszą kwestią w życiu jest. Zrozumienie drugą , odpuścić kiedy je.

Pierwszą najważniejszą kwestią w życiu jest chwytanie okazji. Drugą – zrozumienie, kiedy je odpuścić.

The English in politics are as the old Hebrews in religion, ‘a favored and peculiar people.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of cooperation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbours. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of cooperation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour.

Yes,” said Lady St Julians. “I think those men who breakfast out or who give breakfasts are generally dangerous characters; at least, I would not trust them.

And then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself?

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens

Să vezi Ierusalimul înseamnă să vezi istoria lumii; ba mai mult, înseamnă să vezi istoria cerului și a pământului.

When I want to read a good book I write one.

It is a holy thing to see a state saved by its youth.

The history of Heroes is the history of Youth.

Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours

Ser consciente de la propia ignorancia es un gran paso hacia el saber.

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

The East is a career.

Nothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose

So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Personal distinction is the only passport to the society of the great. Whether this distinction arise from fortune, family, or talent, is immaterial; but certain it is, to enter into high society, a man must either have blood, a million, or a genius.

Ama-se mais o que se conquista com esforço.

If you wish to win a man”s heart, allow him to confute you.

An English revolution is at least a solemn sacrifice: a French revolution is an indecent massacre.

The messenger from the Republics of the West now prostrated himself before the Statue. He informed it that two parties had, unfortunately, broken out in these countries, and threatened their speedy dissolution; that one party maintained that all human government originated in the wants of man; while the other party asserted that it originated in the desires of man. That these factions had become so violent and so universal that public business was altogether stopped

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

Non chiedere mai scusa quando esterni un sentimento. Nel momento in cui lo fai, chiedi scusa per la verità.

A vida é muito curta para ser pequena

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his life

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews.

Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.

I have sometimes half believed, although the suspicion is mortifying, that there is only one step between his state who deeply indulges in imaginative meditation, and insanity.

I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted,” said Egremont.

There are exceptions to all rules, but it seldom answers to follow the advice of an opponent.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Power has only one duty–to secure the social welfare of the people.

When I want to read a book, I write one.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power

In all things we trace the irresistible influence of the individual.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Political institutions, founded on abstract rights and principles, are mere nullities.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Life Is Too Short to be Small

Talk to people about themselves, and they will listen for hours.

No sabéis quiénes son los críticos? Aquellos que no han tenido éxito en la literatura y en el arte.

I believe that nothing in newspapers is ever true,” said Madame Phoebus. “And that is why they are so popular,” added Euphrosyne; “the tast of the age being so decidedly for fiction.

Nothing can resist a human will that will stake its existence on a purpose

We live in an age where to be young and to be indifferent can no longer by synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the future are represented by suffering millions; and the youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity

Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important causes concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of the narrative about as profitable as reading the Republic of Plato or the Utopia if More.

A consistent man believes in destiny; a capricious man in chance.

Justice is truth in action.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous.

Silence is the mother of truth

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Political life must be taken as you find it.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Never explain. Never complain.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Never apologize, never explain.

Kita dilahirkan untuk mencintai sesama.
Itulah prinsip keberadaan kita di dunia ini dan tujuan satu-satunya.

Sikap yang layak dan tenggang rasa terhadap orang-orang lain merupakan dua sifat utama seorang yang bijak.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of cooperation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes;; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbour.

It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll.

Man must ever be the slave of routine: but in old days it was a routine of great thoughts, and now it is a routine of little ones.

Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

There is no act of treachery or mean-ness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Never complain, never explain.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

England is governed not by logic but by parliament.

Departures should be sudden.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

When I want to read a good book, I write one.

The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, they always have the House. People without cares do not require as much food as those whose life entails anxieties. See how long they live!

There is no index of character as sure as the voice.

Man is created for a purpose; the object of his existence is to perfect himself. Man is imperfect by nature, because if nature had made him perfect he would have had no wants; and it is only by supplying his wants that utility can be developed. The development of utility is therefore the object of our being, and the attainment of this great end the cause of our existence.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Every woman should marry … and no man.

He who gains time gains everything.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life.

Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws . . . . THE RICH AND THE POOR.