What did Lord Chesterfield mean by: Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England Copy
+ Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lord Chesterfield, Admire, Experience, Wonder, 0 - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
+ In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lord Chesterfield, Wise, 0 - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
+ People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority. Feraz Zeid, June 12, 2023December 12, 2023, Lord Chesterfield, Hate, Inferiority, 0 - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
+ Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed. Feraz Zeid, September 1, 2023December 24, 2023, Lord Chesterfield, Errors, Failure, Honest, 0 - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
+ Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lord Chesterfield, Knowledge, Pockets, Watches, 0 - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
+ It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lord Chesterfield, Heart, Moral, Sickness, 0 - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
+ Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lord Chesterfield, Company, Language, Speak, 0 - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
+ Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lord Chesterfield, Hate, Political, Politics, 0 - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art. Explain - Miguel de Cervantes Writer · Spain