What did Joseph Addison mean by: The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas. - Joseph Addison Writer · England Copy
+ Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joseph Addison, Authorship, Materials, 0 - Joseph Addison Writer · England
+ Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joseph Addison, Affliction, Destiny, Prosperity, 0 - Joseph Addison Writer · England
+ There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joseph Addison, Mind, Shining, 0 - Joseph Addison Writer · England
+ True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joseph Addison, Criminals, Modesty, 0 - Joseph Addison Writer · England
+ This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joseph Addison, Command, Merit, Success, 0 - Joseph Addison Writer · England
+ Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joseph Addison, Laughter, 0 - Joseph Addison Writer · England
+ Nations with nations mix’d confus’dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joseph Addison, Lost, Lying, War, 0 - Joseph Addison Writer · England
+ Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joseph Addison, Exercise, Health, Science, 0 - Joseph Addison Writer · England
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
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
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. 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