
No. 231 (24 November 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Il y a du mérite sans élévation, mais il n'y a point d'élévation sans quelque mérite.
Maxim 400.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Il y a du mérite sans élévation, mais il n'y a point d'élévation sans quelque mérite.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
No. 231 (24 November 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.”
Maximes et pensées (1805)
Page 17.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)
I.332 http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&pg=PA139&dq=:%22Arrogance+on+the+part+of+the+meritorious+is+even+more+offensive+to+us%22&hl=en&ei=7HFTTKGJOcmhnQfSrsXJAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%3A%22Arrogance%20on%20the%20part%20of%20the%20meritorious%20is%20even%20more%20offensive%20to%20us%22&f=false
Human, All Too Human (1878)
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.”
Iago, Act II, scene iii.
Source: Othello (1603–4)
“…Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.”
For What Reason do so Many Swedes Emigrate Every Year?, 1765.
“Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter