Roger L'Estrange Quotes

• He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Devil, Wages, Wealth

  "Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections".

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• Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

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  Character, Men, Looks

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• It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

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  Happiness, Inner Peace, Eulogy

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• Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

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  Nature, Battle, World

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• Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

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  Taken, Vanity, Imperfection

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1714). “Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections”, p.152

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• We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

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  Life, Thinking, Mind

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.188

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• Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

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  Money, Men, Giving

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1714). “Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections”, p.414

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• The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

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  Evil, Helping, Servant

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• Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

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  Running, Work, Long

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• Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

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  Men, Practice, Favors

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• Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.

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  Enemy, Common, Wit

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1714). “Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections”, p.392

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• The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

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  Men, Laughing, May

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• Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

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  Passion, Fire, Water

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• Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

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  Inspirational, Together, Tongue

  Aesop, Sir Roger L'Estrange (1708). “Fables of Aesop ... By Sir Roger L'Estrange ... The Fifth Edition Corrected”, p.276

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• The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

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  Hombres, Gente, Juzgar

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• Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

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  Love, Eye, Matter

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• It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.

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  Gratitude, Sadness, Frustration

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• There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?

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  Men, Talking, World

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• Los primeros son como arañas venenosas, que extraen una cualidad venenosa, mientras que los segundos, como las abejas, sorben un jugo dulce y provechoso.

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  Sweet, Book, Reading

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• Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

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  Men, Sick, Fancy

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• A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

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  Journey, Way, Diligence

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1714). “Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections”, p.150

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• Las riquezas se consiguen con dolor, se conservan con cuidado y se pierden con dolor. Las preocupaciones de las riquezas son más pesadas para un buen hombre que los inconvenientes de una pobreza honesta.

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  Pain, Lying, Grief

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• Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

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  Hombres, Promesa, Voto

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.111

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• Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

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  Ambition, Advice, Deaf

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.239

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• Wickedness may prosper for a while.

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  Wickedness, May

  Aesop, Sir Roger L'Estrange (1708). “Fables of Aesop ... By Sir Roger L'Estrange ... The Fifth Edition Corrected”, p.324

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