Author of quotes: Samuel Johnson. Page 4

The rich and powerful life is an endless masquerade: all the people surrounding them wear masks; therefore, to understand what others think about us we can only stop feeding the hopes and instill fear.

Even wit's sake, you should never put yourself in a bad light; the sides from the soul laugh at your story, but if you can remember and again to laugh at you.

Power seduces violent and proud; wealth - balanced and shy. That is why the youth aspire to power, and old age sucks up to wealth.

Hope - great happiness; perhaps even the greatest happiness in the world; but hope, as for every pleasure, have to pay: the we pin great hopes, the more disappointment experienced...

Nothing promotes humility as the sense of self-worth.

As soon as we feel the superiority of the counselor over the other, the Council, even the most sensible and necessary, rarely gives us the feeling of gratitude... We more willing to suffer the consequences of their own folly than arrogance counselor who imagines himself to be our good genius.

As a rule, men prefer the dinner to the dinner table, than to hear his wife speak Greek.

We want to be loved, but admire other not located; we are leading friendship with those who, according to their big words, fully shares our views, but shun those who these views are required.

True satisfaction praise delivers only in the case that it publicly repeated that whispers in the ear of pride.

That's how the life that we are happy only the anticipation of change; the change means nothing to us; they just happened, and we've been hankering for a new one.

Believe me, if a man talks about his misfortunes, so this gives him a certain pleasure because the true a dumb mount.

The art of the aphorism is not so much in the expression of some original and profound ideas, as the ability in few words to Express available and useful idea.

The author favorably to his book not only praised, but also criticized, because the glory is like the ball being moved across the grid; so the ball fell to the ground, you need to beat on him from both sides.

Desire is necessary to life was constantly in motion.