„В этом мире нет ничего постоянного, кроме непостоянства.“
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There is nothing in this World constant but Inconstancy
A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1707)
Контексте: ALL Rivers go to the Sea, but none return from it. Xerxes wept when he beheld his Army, to consider that in less than a Hundred Years they would be all Dead. Anacreon was' Choakt with a Grape-stone, and violent Joy Kills as well as violent Grief. There is nothing in this World constant but Inconstancy; yet Plato thought that if Virtue would appear to the World in her own native Dress, all Men would be Enamoured with her. But now since Interest governs the World, and Men neglect the Golden Mean, Jupiter himself, if he came on the Earth would be Despised, unless it were as he did to Danae in a Golden Shower. For Men nowadays Worship the Rising Sun, and not the Setting.
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англо-ирландский писатель-сатирик, публицист, философ, поэт… 1667–1745Похожие цитаты
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