What did John Dryden mean by: Fortune confounds the wise, And when they least expect it turns the dice. - John Dryden Poet · England Copy
+ There is a proud modesty in merit. Feraz Zeid, August 2, 2023December 12, 2023, John Dryden, Merit, Modesty, Proud, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ To tame the proud, the fetter’d slave to free, These are imperial arts. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Dryden, Art, Proud, Slave, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ Love is a passionWhich kindles honor into noble acts. Feraz Zeid, June 20, 2023December 12, 2023, John Dryden, Love, Passion, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it. Feraz Zeid, July 14, 2023December 12, 2023, John Dryden, Interest, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Dryden, Design, Fate, Mind, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ Ill news is wing’d with fate, and flies apace. Feraz Zeid, October 27, 2023December 26, 2023, John Dryden, Fate, News, Wings, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Dryden, Love, Mind, Wise, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
+ O freedom, first delight of human kind! Feraz Zeid, August 12, 2023December 12, 2023, John Dryden, Delight, First, Freedom, 0 - John Dryden Poet · England
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan’s deflation is another’s inflation. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
