Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
Weitere Zitate von Samuel Johnson
Zum Autor"Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it."
"The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning."
"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern."
"Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind."
"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."
"There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve."