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Benjamin Constant

Data di nascita: 25. Ottobre 1767
Data di morte: 8. Dicembre 1830
Altri nomi: Henri Benjamin Constant De Rebecque

Benjamin Constant era scrittore, politico.

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Benjamin Constant6

scrittore, politico 1767 – 1830

„L'Inghilterra non è, in fondo, che una vasta, opulenta e vigorosa aristocrazia.“1830, vol. I, p. 23; citato in Losurdo 2005, p. 122

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Benjamin Constant6

scrittore, politico 1767 – 1830

„Il rischio della moderna libertà è che, assorbiti nel godimento della nostra indipendenza privata e nel perseguimento dei nostri interessi particolari, rinunciamo con troppa facilità al nostro diritto di partecipazione al potere politico.“da La libertà degli antichi, p. 32

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Benjamin Constant6

scrittore, politico 1767 – 1830

„L'arte per amore dell'arte, senza scopo, perché ogni scopo corrompe l'arte. Ma l'arte raggiunge uno scopo che non è quello suo proprio.“

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Benjamin Constant6

scrittore, politico 1767 – 1830

„Gli uomini che passano per essere i più duri sono in realtà molto più sensibili di quelli di cui si vanta la sensibilità espansiva. Si fanno duri perché la loro sensibilità, essendo vera, li fa soffrire.“

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Benjamin Constant6

scrittore, politico 1767 – 1830

„L'arbitrarietà non è letale soltanto se usata per compiere dei crimini. Impiegata contro il crimine è altrettanto pericolosa.“

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Benjamin Constant6

scrittore, politico 1767 – 1830

„Il grande problema della vita è il dolore che si provoca, e la metafisica più ingegnosa non giustifica l'uomo che ha straziato il cuore che lo amava.“libro Adolphe

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Benjamin Constant16

Swiss-born French politician, writer on politics and rel... 1767 – 1830

„The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.“Adolphe

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Benjamin Constant16

Swiss-born French politician, writer on politics and rel... 1767 – 1830

„Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.“

Benjamin Constant foto

Benjamin Constant16

Swiss-born French politician, writer on politics and rel... 1767 – 1830

„Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)“

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Benjamin Constant16

Swiss-born French politician, writer on politics and rel... 1767 – 1830

„Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!“Adolphe

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Benjamin Constant16

Swiss-born French politician, writer on politics and rel... 1767 – 1830

„Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our way of placating that half of our being which is in a sense a spectator of the other.“Adolphe

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Benjamin Constant16

Swiss-born French politician, writer on politics and rel... 1767 – 1830

„We are such volatile creatures, we finally feel sentiments we feign“Adolphe

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Benjamin Constant16

Swiss-born French politician, writer on politics and rel... 1767 – 1830

„I detest that fatuity of mind which believes that what is explained is also excused; I hate that vanity which finds it interesting to describe the harm that it has done, and asks to be pitied at the end of its recital, and, as it patrols with impunity among the ruins for which it is responsible, gives to self-analysis the time which should be given to repentance.“Adolphe

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Benjamin Constant16

Swiss-born French politician, writer on politics and rel... 1767 – 1830

„It is true that love is a feeling one places, whenever one feels the need of placing it, on the first object that happens along“Journal intime de Benjamin Constant et lettres à sa famille et à ses amis

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Benjamin Constant16

Swiss-born French politician, writer on politics and rel... 1767 – 1830

„If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.“Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments

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Benjamin Constant16

Swiss-born French politician, writer on politics and rel... 1767 – 1830

„A government that spoke of military glory as an aim would betray ignorance of, or contempt for, the spirit of nations and the age. It would be an error by a thousand years. Even if it should initially succeed, it would be interesting to see who in the end would win this odd wager, our own century or the offending government.“

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