Charles Caleb Colton

“Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.”

“If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has; they serve him better than any others, and receive no wages.”

“most men know what they hate; few what they love”

“Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.”

“Nachahmung ist die aufrichtigste Form der Schmeichelei.”

“There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.”

“Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.”

“Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”

“La amistad puede convertirse en amor. El amor en amistad. . .nunca.”

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”

“Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.”

“To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.”

“True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.”

“He that will only believe what he can fully comprehend must either have a very long head, or a very short creed.”

“Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live”

“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”

“No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.”

“Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.”

“When you have nothing to say, say nothing.”

“Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.”

“A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.”

“Men are born with two eyes but only one tongue in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”

“Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.”

“Wealth... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. ”

“Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.”

“Orang yang merasa dirinya manusia paling bahagia, memang ia manusia yang paling bahagia.”

“A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”

“Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority. ”

“If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.”

“Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.”

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”

“The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame”

“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.”

“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.”

“Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.”