Frasi di Philip Stanhope, IV conte di Chesterfield pagina 3

“I giovani sono soliti pensare di essere abbastanza saggi così come gli ubriachi pensano di essere abbastanza sobri.”

“La pigrizia è il rifugio degli spiriti deboli.”

Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 106, pag. 148.

“La maggior parte della gente gode dell'inferiorità dei suoi migliori amici.”

Origine: Da Lettere al figlio.

“Il modo di vestirsi è una preoccupazione sciocca. Ma è molto sciocco per un uomo non esser ben vestito.”

da Letters, 1745

“Style is the dress of thoughts.”

Origine: Da Letters, 1745. Citato in Dizionario delle citazioni, a cura di Ettore Barelli e Sergio Pennacchietti, BUR, 2013. ISBN 9788858654644

Philip Stanhope, IV conte di Chesterfield: Frasi in inglese

“I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.”

24 November 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“Sacrifice to the Graces.”

9 March 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison. ”

9 March 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“We must not draw general conclusions from certain particular principles, though, in the main, true ones. We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will therefore always act rationally; or, because he has such or such a predominant passion, that he will act invariably and consequentially in the pursuit of it. No. We are complicated machines: and though we have one main-spring, that gives motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometimes stop that motion.”