Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man.
Weitere Zitate von Alexander Pope
Zum Autor"Get place and wealth if possible with grace If not by any means get wealth and place."
"Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er."
"A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,and drinking largely sobers us again."
"The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on."
"Wise wretch! With pleasures too refined to please,With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,With too much quickness ever to be taught,With too much thinking to have common thought:You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live."
"Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state."