Author of quotes: Jonathan Swift
Ambition often forces people to indulge in the lowest activities: they climb upward in the same position as they crawl.
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Viker 15-01-2024 / 13:01
But what if churches are tombs not only for the dead, but also for the living?
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Viker 14-02-2023 / 09:26
(When a true genius appears in the world, you can recognize him by this sign: all the dunces conspire against him.)
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MegaMozg 21-09-2022 / 13:30
I did not need to protect myself from deception and violence, there were no dandies, brawlers, drunkards, prostitutes and venereal diseases; there were no quarrelsome, shameless, wasteful wives; there were no villains who rose from the mud due to their vices, and noble people thrown into the mud for their virtues.
Quote Explanation: in the country of horses
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MegaMozg 13-01-2022 / 09:51
Such things as divorce or adultery are unheard of there, and a married couple goes their way in life with the same friendly feelings and mutual benevolence that they have for all members of their tribe that meet on their way; they are not aware of jealousy, fits of tenderness, quarrels and annoyance at each other.
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MegaMozg 13-01-2022 / 09:48
Friendship and benevolence are the two main virtues of the Guygnhnms, and they are not limited to individuals, but extend to the entire race. The Huygnhnms think that nature teaches them to equally love everyone like them, and only reason sets the differences between individuals according to the height of their virtue.
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MegaMozg 13-01-2022 / 09:45
Since the noble Guygnhnms are by nature endowed with a general predisposition to all virtues and have not the slightest idea of what evil is in a rational being, the basic rule of their life is to perfect the mind and completely obey its leadership.
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MegaMozg 13-01-2022 / 09:42
Yehu are cunning, spiteful, treacherous and vindictive; they are strong and daring, but at the same time cowardly, which makes them arrogant, base and cruel.
Quote Explanation: ehu - people in the country of horses, the owner is a horse
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MegaMozg 13-01-2022 / 09:39
The rudiments of debauchery, coquetry, nagging and backbiting are inherent in the entire female sex.
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MegaMozg 13-01-2022 / 09:36
These animals, like other animals, have common females; but their peculiarity is that the female exu admit the male even during pregnancy and that the males quarrel and fight with the females as fiercely as they do with each other.
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MegaMozg 13-01-2022 / 09:33
Most ehu herds have some kind of ruler who is always the ugliest and most vicious in the herd.
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MegaMozg 13-01-2022 / 09:30
Our conscientious courts never dismiss cases until both sides are ruined in the end.
Quote Explanation: England 1715
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MegaMozg 13-01-2022 / 08:45
If you give five of them food, which would be enough for fifty, then instead of calmly starting to eat, they start a fight, and everyone tries to grab everything for themselves.
Quote Explanation: ehu - people in the country of horses
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MegaMozg 13-01-2022 / 08:42
Yehu hate each other more than animals of other species.
Quote Explanation: ehu - people in the country of horses
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MegaMozg 13-01-2022 / 08:39
The existence of our government and laws, obviously, is due to the great imperfection of our reason, and therefore of virtue; for to control a rational being, one mind is enough.
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MegaMozg 13-01-2022 / 08:36