Zitat des Tages von Daniel Defoe:
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
Pride the first peer and president of hell.
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
All men would be tyrants if they could.
He that is rich is wise.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.