What did Samuel Johnson mean by: Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. - Samuel Johnson Writer · England Copy
+ The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Johnson, Wise, 0 - Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. Feraz Zeid, July 16, 2023December 12, 2023, Samuel Johnson, Musical, Sensual, Vices, 0 - Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ In sovereignty there are no gradations. Feraz Zeid, July 7, 2023December 12, 2023, Samuel Johnson, Monarchy, Sovereignty, 0 - Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness. Feraz Zeid, July 6, 2023December 12, 2023, Samuel Johnson, Apology, Occasions, Rudeness, 0 - Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Johnson, Design, Imperfection, 0 - Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Johnson, Attitude, Copies, Endeavor, 0 - Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Samuel Johnson, Envy, Toil, 0 - Samuel Johnson Writer · England
+ A fallible being will fail somewhere. Feraz Zeid, August 2, 2023December 12, 2023, Samuel Johnson, Failure, 0 - Samuel Johnson Writer · England
A man can keep another’s secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. - Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom
If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
