
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“Nothing prevents us being natural so much as the desire to appear so.”
Rien n'empêche tant d'être naturel que l'envie de le paraître.
Maxim 431.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Source: Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers
Source: The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey (2002), p. 256
“Nothing is given so profusely as advice.”
On ne donne rien si libéralement que ses conseils.
Maxim 110.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.”
Quod vult habet, qui cupere quod sat est potest.
Maxim 559 [Mimi et aliorum sententiae 677]
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.”
Lo pagado con nuestra vida nunca es caro.
Voces (1943)
“My ideas! It is the house for lodging them that costs me so much to build.”