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Gabriel García Márquez цитата: “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
Gabriel García Márquez фото

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
Неправда, что люди перестают преследовать свои мечты, потому что они стареют; они стареют, потому что перестают гнаться за мечтой.

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
Oscar Wilde цитата: “Every woman is a rebel.”
Oscar Wilde фото

“Every woman is a rebel.”
Каждая женщина - бунтарь.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Paulo Coelho фото

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
Любовь это необузданная сила. Когда мы пытаемся ее контролировать, она разрушает нас. Когда мы ограничить ее свободу, она порабощает нас. Когда мы пытаемся ее анализировать, то чувствуем себя сбитыми с толку и потерянными.

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Gore Vidal фото

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn”
Стиль - это знать кто ты, что ты хочешь сказать, и плевать на все остальное.

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
Milan Kundera фото
Samuel Goldwyn фото

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”

Samuel Goldwyn (1879–1974) American film producer (1879-1974).

Misattributed

Octavia E. Butler фото

“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”
Чтобы восстать из собственного пепла, Феникс должен сначала сгореть.

Octavia E. Butler книга Parable of the Talents

Вариант: In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.
Источник: Parable of the Talents

Victor Hugo фото

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

Victor Hugo книга William Shakespeare

Ce qu’on ne peut dire et ce qu’on ne peut taire, la musique l’exprime.
Part I, Book II, Chapter IV
William Shakespeare (1864)
Вариант: Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
Источник: Hugo's Works: William Shakespeare

Oscar Wilde фото

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
Они уверяют, что сны сбываются - они забыли упомянуть, что кошмары - тоже сны.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Terry Pratchett фото

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”

Terry Pratchett книга Reaper Man

Вариант: Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
Источник: Reaper Man

William Shakespeare фото

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
Дай слова скорби; печаль, которая не говорит, сносит другое сердце и заставляет его разбиться.

Вариант: The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.
Источник: Macbeth

Friedrich Nietzsche фото

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
Когда мы устали, на нас нападают идеи, которые мы давно победили.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Mark Twain фото

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
Всегда делай то, что правильно. Это удовлетворит половину человечества и поразит другую.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

To the Young People's Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn (February 16, 1901).
Вариант: Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

Bertrand Russell фото

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

Bertrand Russell книга The Conquest of Happiness

Источник: 1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

Jim Valvano фото
Abraham Lincoln фото

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
Люди обычно настолько счастливы, насколько решают.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Often misquoted as: "I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." or "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
This quote is not found in the various Lincoln sources which can be searched online (e.g. Gutenberg). Niether does Lincoln appear more generally to use the phrase "making up {one's} mind". The saying was first quoted, ascribed to Lincoln but with no source given, in 1914 by Frank Crane and several times subsequently by him in altered versions. It was later quoted in How to Get What You Want (1917) by Orison Swett Marden (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1917), 74, again without source. Alternative versions quoted are: "I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" and "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."


Источник: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/20/happy-minds/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CPeople%20are%20about%20as%20happy,up%20their%20minds%20to%20be.%E2%80%9D&text=Remember%20Lincoln's%20saying%20that%20%E2%80%9Cfolks,up%20their%20minds%20to%20be.%E2%80%9D

Curiously in later books Crane, e.g. Four Minute Essays, 1919, Adventures in Common Sense, 1920, "21", 1930, Crane mentions other routes to happiness and does not again use this quote.

Marden used a great many quotes in his writings, without giving sources. Whilst sources for many of the quotes can be found, this is not true for all. For instance he mentions another story in which Lincoln says "Madam, you have not a peg to hang your case on"; this also does not seem to found in Lincoln sources.

Elias Canetti фото

“Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.”

Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer

Источник: The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

Stephen King фото

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
Честно говоря, ты можешь взять мой пистолет, но ты возьмешь мою книгу только тогда, когда выдернешь мои холодные, мертвые пальцы с переплета.

Stephen King (1947) American author
Ralph Waldo Emerson фото

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
Когда достаточно темно, вы можете увидеть звезды.

Widely attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson on the internet; however, a presumably definitive source of Emerson's works at http://www.rwe.org fails to confirm any occurrence of this phrase across his works. This phrase is found in remarks attributed to Charles A. Beard in Arthur H. Secord, "Condensed History Lesson", Readers' Digest, February 1941, p. 20; but the origin has not been determined. Possibly confused with a passage in "Illusions" in which Emerson discusses his experience in the "Star Chamber": "our lamps were taken from us by the guide, and extinguished or put aside, and, on looking upwards, I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars glimmering more or less brightly over our heads, and even what seemed a comet flaming among them. All the party were touched with astonishment and pleasure. Our musical friends sung with much feeling a pretty song, “The stars are in the quiet sky,” &c., and I sat down on the rocky floor to enjoy the serene picture. Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead, reflecting the light of a half–hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect."
Misattributed

Abraham Lincoln фото

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
Разве я не уничтожаю своих врагов, когда делаю их своими друзьями? Нет. Скажи кто твой друг, и я скажу кто ты

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

His response when "accused of treating his opponents with too much courtesy and kindness, and when it was pointed out to him that his whole duty was to destroy them", as quoted in More New Testament Words (1958) by William Barclay; either this anecdote or Lincoln's reply may have been adapted from a reply attributed to Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund:
:* Some courtiers reproached the Emperor Sigismond that, instead of destroying his conquered foes, he admitted them to favour. “Do I not,” replied the illustrious monarch, “effectually destroy my enemies, when I make them my friends?”
::* "Daily Facts" in The Family Magazine Vol. IV (1837), p. 123 http://books.google.de/books?id=aW0EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA123&dq=destroy; also quoted as simply in "Do I not effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?" in The Sociable Story-teller (1846)
Disputed

Jane Austen фото

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
Я хочу, как и любой другой человек, быть абсолютно счастливым; но, как и у остальных, это должно быть именно по-моему.

Jane Austen книга Sense and Sensibility

Источник: Sense and Sensibility

Friedrich Nietzsche фото

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
Нужно носить в себе ещё хаос, чтобы быть в состоянии родить танцующую звезду.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Judy Garland фото
Abraham Lincoln фото

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
Мой лучший друг - это человек, который даст мне книгу, которую я не читал.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Oscar Wilde фото

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune … to lose both seems like carelessness.”
Потерю одного из родителей можно расценить как невезение... потеря обоих кажется небрежностью.

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Lady Bracknell, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Henry David Thoreau фото

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Если мы будем спокойны и достаточно готовы, мы найдем компенсацию в каждом разочаровании.

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Источник: I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau

Stephen King фото

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
Любое слово, за которым вы должны охотиться в тезаурусе, является неправильным словом. Из этого правила нет исключений.

Stephen King (1947) American author
Bruce Lee фото

“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Источник: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 121
Источник: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Colette фото
Confucius фото

“Man has three ways of acting wisely. First, on meditation; that is the noblest. Secondly, on imitation; that is the easiest. Thirdly, on experience; that is the bitterest.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

The Analects, as reported in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 279.
Attributed

Oscar Wilde фото

“I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.”
Я не знал ничего, кроме теней, и думал, что они настоящие.

Oscar Wilde книга Портрет Дориана Грея

Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray

William Shakespeare фото

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
Как далеко эта маленькая свеча бросает его лучи! Так и светит доброе дело в утомленном мире.

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Источник: The Merchant of Venice

Sigmund Freud фото

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
Однажды, оглядываясь назад, годы борьбы поразят вас как самых красивых.

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
James Joyce фото

“God made food; the devil the cooks.”
Бог создал еду; дьявол - поваров.

James Joyce Ulysses

Источник: Ulysses

Karl Marx фото

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretirt; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern.
http://books.google.com/books?id=xyc9AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Die+Philosophen+haben+die+Welt+nur+verschieden%22+%22es+kommt+aber+darauf+an+sie+zu+ver%C3%A4ndern%22&pg=PA72#v=onepage
"Theses on Feuerbach" (1845), Thesis 11, Marx Engels Selected Works,(MESW), Volume I, p. 15; these words are also engraved upon his grave.
First published as an appendix to the pamphlet Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy by Friedrich Engels (1886)
Источник: Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

F. Scott Fitzgerald фото

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Источник: The Great Gatsby

Oscar Wilde фото

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”
Я никогда не откладывал на завтра то, что я могу сделать - послезавтра.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Lucille Ball фото

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

Вариант: I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
Вариант: Id rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done.

Gabriel García Márquez фото

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Источник: Gabriel García Márquez: a Life

Mark Twain фото

“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.”
У всех людей есть страхи, но смелые подавляют свои страхи и идут вперед, иногда к смерти, но всегда к победе.

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Источник: How to Win Friends and Influence People

Stephen King фото

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
Время занимает все, хотите ли вы этого или нет.

Stephen King книга The Green Mile

Источник: The Green Mile

Teresa of Ávila фото
Oscar Wilde фото

“There is no sin except stupidity.”
Нет греха, кроме глупости.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Источник: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II

William Faulkner фото

“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
Не будьте «писателем». Просто пишите.

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
Vincent Van Gogh фото

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
Рыбаки знают, что море опасно, а шторм ужасен, но они никогда не находили эти опасности достаточным основанием для того, чтобы оставаться на берегу.

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Vincent Van Gogh фото

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
Великие дела совершаются с помощью серии небольших действий, собранных вместе

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

In his letter to Theo, from The Hague, 22 October 1882, http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/11/237.htm
1880s, 1882

Martin Luther King, Jr. фото

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Мы либо научимся жить вместе как братья, либо все вместе погибнем как глупцы.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, A Christmas Sermon (1967)
Вариант: We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools.

John Locke фото

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
Я всегда обдумывал действия людей, слишком легко говорящих о том, что у них на уме.

John Locke книга Опыт о человеческом разумении

Book 1, Ch. 3, sec. 3
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
Вариант: The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Oscar Wilde фото

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”
Музыка заставит любого почувствовать себя романтично, по крайней мере, она всегда действует на нервы, - что в наши дни то же самое.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Albert Einstein фото

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
Логика доставит вас от А до Я; воображение доставит вас повсюду.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Вариант: Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere.

Stephen King фото

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
Если вы хотите стать писателем, хорошо иметь небольшой талант. Но единственное реальное требование - способность помнить каждый шрам.

Stephen King (1947) American author
Bertrand Russell фото

“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
Есть два мотива для чтения книги: во-первых, она вам нравится; другой, что вы можете похвастаться этим.

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

Oscar Wilde фото

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
Никогда не следует доверять женщине, которая называет вам свой возраст. Женщина, сказавшая это, может рассказать что угодно.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Jane Austen фото
Charles Baudelaire фото
Oscar Wilde фото

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”
Цель жизни - саморазвитие. Совершенно осознать свою природу - вот для чего каждый из нас здесь.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Abraham Lincoln фото

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
Если бы у меня было восемь часов на то, чтобы срубить дерево, я потратил бы шесть часов на то, чтобы наточить топор.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Вариант: If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.

Charles Bukowski фото

“Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”

Charles Bukowski книга Factotum

Источник: Factotum (1975), Ch. 31

Bob Dylan фото

“All I can be is me- whoever that is.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Jack London фото

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
Кость, брошенная собаке, не есть милосердие; милосердие - это кость, поделенная с собакой, когда ты голоден не меньше ее.

Jack London (1876–1916) American author, journalist, and social activist

"Confession" in Complete Works of Jack London, Delphi Classics, 2013
Вариант: Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Winston S. Churchill фото

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
Ничто в жизни так не воодушевляет, как то, что в тебя стреляли и промахнулись.

Winston S. Churchill книга The Story of the Malakand Field Force

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter X.
Early career years (1898–1929)
Вариант: There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.

Friedrich Nietzsche фото

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
Настоящий философ боится быть понятым более, чем быть неправильно истолкованным.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Oscar Wilde фото

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”
Не слыша зла, не говори зла, и вы не будете приглашены на коктейльные вечеринки.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Stephen King фото

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
Мы сочиняем ужасы, чтобы помочь себе справиться с реальностью.

Stephen King (1947) American author
William Shakespeare фото

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
Бог дал тебе одно лицо, а ты сам себе делаешь другое.

William Shakespeare Гамлет, принц датский

Источник: Hamlet

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. фото

“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”
Задумывайте грандиозное, но наслаждайтесь малым.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Источник: Life's Little Instruction Book

Terry Pratchett фото
Emile Zola фото
Bruce Lee фото

“Balance your thoughts with action. — If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Источник: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 43

Elbert Hubbard фото

“Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.”
Никогда не оправдывайся. Твоим друзьям это не нужно, а враги все равно не поверят.

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

The Motto Book (1907).
Вариант: Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.

Haruki Murakami фото
Ernest Hemingway фото

“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

This quotation was not crafted by Ernest Hemingway. Its exact genesis is uncertain, but QI hypothesizes that the 1929 statement by Hemingway and the 1992 lyric by Leonard Cohen both strongly influenced the evolution of the expression and its ascription. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/11/16/light/

Susan B. Anthony фото
Ian Fleming фото

“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face.”

Ian Fleming книга You Only Live Twice

Источник: You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 11 : Anatomy Class

Gabriel García Márquez фото

“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”

Gabriel García Márquez книга Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Вариант: Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
Источник: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Eleanor Roosevelt фото

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.”
Всегда помните, что вы не только имеете право быть личностью, вы обязаны ею быть.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
C.G. Jung фото
Napoleon Hill фото

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
Все, что человеческий разум способен понять и во что он способен поверить, достижимо.

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

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Вариант: Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Источник: Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice

Albert Einstein фото

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

The New Quotable Einstein
1950s, Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)

Aristotle фото
Rainer Maria Rilke фото
Peter F. Drucker фото
Friedrich Nietzsche фото

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
Ах, женщины. Они делают максимумы выше, а минимумы - более частыми.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Terry Pratchett фото

“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”

Terry Pratchett книга Night Watch

Источник: Night Watch

Niccolo Machiavelli фото

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”

Niccolo Machiavelli книга Государь

Источник: The Prince (1513), Ch. 18
Variant translations of portions of this passage:
Every one admits how praiseworthy it is in a prince to keep faith, and to live with integrity and not with craft. Nevertheless our experience has been that those princes who have done great things have held good faith of little account, and have known how to circumvent the intellect of men by craft, and in the end have overcome those who have relied on their word.
Ch. 18. Concerning the Way in which Princes should keep Faith (as translated by W. K. Marriott)
A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.
You must know there are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts; but because the first is frequently not sufficient, it is necessary to have recourse to the second.
Контексте: A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognise snares, and a lion to frighten wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this.
Контексте: How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience of our times shows those princes to have done great things who have had little regard for good faith, and have been able by astuteness to confuse men's brains, and who have ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation. You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second. It is therefore necessary to know well how to use both the beast and the man. This was covertly taught to princes by ancient writers, who relate how Achilles and many others of those princes were given to Chiron the centaur to be brought up, who kept them under his discipline; this system of having for teacher one who was half beast and half man is meant to indicate that a prince must know how to use both natures, and that the one without the other is not durable. A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognise snares, and a lion to frighten wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this. Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made him bind himself no longer exist. If men were all good, this precept would not be a good one; but as they are bad, and would not observe their faith with you, so you are not bound to keep faith with them.... those that have been best able to imitate the fox have succeeded best. But it is necessary to be able to disguise this character well, and to be a great feigner and dissembler.

John F. Kennedy фото

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
Мы должны найти время, чтобы остановиться и поблагодарить людей, которые изменили нашу жизнь.

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Charles Bukowski фото
Jean Paul Sartre фото

“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
Она ни во что не верила; только ее скептицизм мешал ей стать атеисткой.

Jean Paul Sartre книга The Words

The Words (1964), speaking of his grandmother.

C.G. Jung фото

“Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”

C.G. Jung книга Психологические типы

Источник: Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation (1921), Ch. 1, p. 82
Контексте: The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.

Abraham Lincoln фото

“Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

As quoted in "Lincoln's Imagination" by Noah Brooks, in Scribner's Monthly (August 1879), p. 586 http://books.google.com/books?id=jOoGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA586
Posthumous attributions
Вариант: Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Henry David Thoreau фото

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Неправильно сесть и писать, когда вы еще не встали, чтобы жить.

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

August 19, 1851
Journals (1838-1859)
Вариант: How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Oscar Wilde фото

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
Некоторые вещи более ценны, потому что они не длятся долго.

Oscar Wilde книга Портрет Дориана Грея

Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Robert Fulghum фото

“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.”

Robert Fulghum книга All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Источник: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

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