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“L'applauso è lo sprone delle menti forti, il fine e lo scopo di quelle deboli.”

vol. I, n. 324
Lacon

“L'imitazione è la più sincera delle adulazioni.”

vol. I, n. 217
Lacon
Origine: Spesso erroneamente citata come "L'imitazione è la forma più sincera di adulazione". Erroneamente attribuita anche a John Garland Pollard: la sua opera Connotary contiene, infatti, anche citazioni di altri autori.

“Noi odiamo alcune persone perché non le conosciamo; e non le conosceremo mai perché le odiamo.”

Charles Caleb Colton

“Gli esami sono terribili anche per i meglio preparati, perché il più stupido fra gli stupidi può fare domande a cui il più saggio fra gli uomini non è in grado di rispondere.”

Charles Caleb Colton

Lacon

“Nessuno ama tanto i segreti quanto chi non ha intenzione di mantenerli.”

Charles Caleb Colton

vol. I, n. 40
Lacon

“Quando non hai niente da dire, non dire niente.”

Charles Caleb Colton

vol. I, 1820, n. 183
Lacon

Charles Caleb Colton: Frasi in inglese

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.”

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Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. II; LXXXIII
Lacon

“Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory—of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.”

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Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. II; XXXVIII
Lacon (1820)

“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.”

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Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; CCCXXII
Lacon (1820)

“To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it; the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.”

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Origine: Lacon (1820) Vol. I; CCCCXXVII (7th Edition, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, in 1821)

“To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it;”

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Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; CCCCXXVII (7th Edition, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, in 1821)
Lacon
Contesto: To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it; the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

“When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.”

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Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; CLXXXIII
Lacon

“With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.”

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Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. II; XVII
Lacon (1820)

“Those illustrious men, who, like torches, have consumed themselves, in order to enlighten others, have often lived unrewarded, and died unlamented. But the tongues of aftertimes have done them justice in one sense, but injustice in another. They have honoured them with their praise, but they have disgraced them with their pity. They pity them forsooth, because they missed of present praise, and temporal emolument; things great indeed to the little, but little to the great.”

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Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; DLXXV
Lacon (1820)