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Alle Lebewesen außer dem Menschen wissen, dass der Hauptzweck des Lebens darin besteht, es zu genießen.
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Schriftsteller, Maler, Komponist, Philologe, "Erewon Revisited", "Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont" (England, 1835 - 1902).
Samuel Butler · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Samuel Butler wäre heute 189 Jahre, 4 Monate, 22 Tage oder 69.175 Tage alt.
Geboren am 04.12.1835 in Langar/Nottinghamshire
Gestorben am 18.06.1902 in London
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Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.
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For justice, though she's painted blind, / Is to the weaker side inclined.
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For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most have leaned to excess rather than to ascetism.
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For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.
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Happiness and misery depend not upon how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending.
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He that complies against his will, is of his own opinion still.
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I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
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If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own success.
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If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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In law nothing is certain but expense.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
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It is the functon of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.
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Jesus! with all thy faults I love thee still.
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Learning, that cobweb of the brain, Profane, erroneous, and vain.