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alles amore Aphorismen ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER autres BACON bella best bien bisogna bonheur BÖRNE buon c'est CHAMFORT chose coeur cuore d'être dell'uomo donna Ecce homo EMERSON Essais être faire fait faut felicità femme femmes filosofo FLAUBERT FOSCOLO FRIEDRICH FRIEDRICH RÜCKERT Gedanken Gedichte GEORGE ELIOT Glück good GRAF great homme hommes HUGO J. W. GOETHE jamais JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE Junggesellenbrevier l'amore l'homme l'uomo LACORDAIRE Leben LEONARDO DA VINCI LEOPARDI Les misérables Liebe Liebesbrevier life love M.ME MACHIAVELLI macht Maximes et pensées Mensch Menschen misérables mondo MONTAIGNE morale morte muss n'est natura never Note azzurre OSCAR WILDE Pensieri peut poeta point qu'il qu'on qu'un Réflexions religione REMY DE GOURMONT rien ROCHEFOUCAULD romanziere RÜCKERT RUSKIN SCHILLER sciocchi scrittore inglese scrittore tedesco sentimento SHAKESPEARE sind soltanto Table-Talk thing THOMAS BROWNE tout truth umana uomini uomo verità vertu viel virtù vivere Voneisen Welt woman world
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Page 10 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 169 - I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Page 222 - Dopo un lungo dibattere e cercare insieme, conclusero che i guai vengono bensì spesso, perché ci si è dato cagione; ma che la condotta più cauta e più innocente non basta a tenerli lontani; e che quando vengono, o per colpa o senza colpa, la fiducia in Dio li raddolcisce, e li rende utili per una vita migliore.
Page 909 - The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
Page 313 - Maestro, che, seggendo in piuma, In fama non si vien, né sotto coltre: Senza la qual chi sua vita consuma, «• Cotal vestigio in terra di sé lascia, Qual fumo in aere od in acqua la schiuma...
Page 136 - Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come...
Page 577 - Le dernier acte est sanglant, quelque belle que soit la comédie en tout le reste. On jette enfin de la terre sur la tête, et en voilà pour jamais.
Page 130 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Page 525 - in me iacis ? est auctor quis denique eorum 80 vixi cum quibus? absentem qui rodit amicum, qui non defendit alio culpante, solutos qui captat risus hominum famamque dicacis, fingere qui non visa potest, commissa tacere qui nequit, hie niger est, hunc tu, Romane, caveto.
Page 701 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough: this earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.