�ϻ�����Ӯ����

“Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. ”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“Meu amo não podia compreender como toda essa raça de patrícios era tão malevolente e tão terrível.”
― Jonathan Swift, Viagens de Gulliver

“is a very kingly, honourable, and frequent practice, when one prince desires the assistance of another, to secure him against an invasion, that the assistant, when he has driven out the invader, should seize on the dominions himself, and kill, imprison, or banish, the prince he came to relieve. ”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“todas as terras que um súdito descobre, pertencem, de direito, à coroa.”
― Jonathan Swift, Viagens de Gulliver

“I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals, who”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World: with original color illustrations by Arthur Rackham

“When I gave that free censure of the country and its inhabitants, he made no further answer than by telling me, “that I had not been long enough among them to form a judgment; and that the different nations of the world had different customs;”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“The whole course of things being thus entirely changed between us and the ancients, and the moderns wisely sensible of it, we of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method, to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking. The most accomplished way of using books at present is two-fold: either first, to serve them as some men do lords, learn their titles exactly, and then brag of their acquaintance. Or secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index, by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail. For, to enter the palace of learning at the great gate, requires an expense of time and forms; therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back door.”
― Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub and Other Satires

“Añadí que la vida que había llevado desde entonces era lo bastante trabajosa para matar a un ser diez veces más fuerte que yo; que mi salud se había quebrantado mucho con aquella continua y miserable faena de divertir a la gentuza a todas las horas del día,”
― Jonathan Swift, Los viajes de Gulliver

“Quand un vrai génie apparaît en ce bas monde, on peut le reconnaitre à ce signe que les imbéciles sont tous ligués contre lui.”
― Jonathan Swift

“The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.”
― Jonathan Swift

“I said, “there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbour has a mind to my cow, he has a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. I must then hire another to defend my right, it being against all rules of law that any man should be allowed to speak for himself. Now, in this case, I, who am the right owner, lie under two great disadvantages: first, my lawyer, being practised almost from his cradle in defending falsehood, is quite out of his element when he would be an advocate for justice, which is an unnatural office he always attempts with great awkwardness, if not with ill-will. The second disadvantage is, that my lawyer must proceed with great caution, or else he will be reprimanded by the judges, and abhorred by his brethren, as one that would lessen the practice of the law. And therefore I have but two methods to preserve my cow. The first is, to gain over my adversary’s lawyer with a double fee, who will then betray his client by insinuating that he hath justice on his side. The second way is for my lawyer to make my cause appear as unjust as he can, by allowing the cow to belong to my adversary: and this, if it be skilfully done, will certainly bespeak the favour of the bench.”
― Jonathan Swift

“Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.”
― Jonathan Swift

“felt great numbers of people on my left side relaxing the cords to such a degree, that I was able to turn upon my right, and to ease myself with making water; which I very plentifully did, to the great astonishment of the people; who, conjecturing by my motion what I was going to do, immediately opened to the right and left on that side, to avoid the torrent, which fell with such noise and violence from”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World: with original color illustrations by Arthur Rackham

“The empress, and young princes of the blood of both sexes, attended by many ladies, sat at some distance in their chairs; but”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World: with original color illustrations by Arthur Rackham

“So impossible it is for a man who looks no further than the present world to fix himself long in a contemplation where the present world has no part; he has no sure hold, no firm footing; he can never expect to remove the earth he rests upon while he has no support besides for his feet, but wants, like Archimedes, some other place whereon to stand. To talk of bearing pain and grief without any sort of present or future hope cannot be purely greatness of spirit; there must be a mixture in it of affectation and an alloy of pride, or perhaps is wholly counterfeit.

It is true there has been all along in the world a notion of rewards and punishments in another life, but it seems to have rather served as an entertainment to poets or as a terror of children than a settled principle by which men pretended to govern any of their actions. The last celebrated words of Socrates, a little before his death, do not seem to reckon or build much upon any such opinion; and Caesar made no scruple to disown it and ridicule it in open senate.”
― Jonathan Swift, Three Sermons, Three Prayers

“Readers may be divided into three classes - the superficial, the ignorant, and the learned, and I have with much felicity fitted my pen to the genius and advantage of each.”
― Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub

“Jonathan Swift: Guliverova putovanja

ll. dio
U nadi da ću se još više umiliti njegovu veličanstvu, pripovjedio sam mu o izumu koji je pronađen prije tri-četiri stotine godina: neki prah, pa kad u hrpu toga praha padne najsitnija iskrica, začas će planuti... Najveća zrna, ispaljena ovako, ne nište samo u jedan mah cijele redove vojske, nego i sravnjuju sa zemljom najjače zidove; potapaju na dno morske brodove, s tisuću ljudi na svakom; a kad se spoje lancem, presijecaju jarbole i užeta, raspolovljuju stotine tjelesa i pustoše sve pred sobom. ...
Kralja spopala strava od mojega opisa tih grozovitih sprava i od moje ponude. Začudio se kako ovako nemoćan i puzav kukac, kao što sam ja (to su mu bile riječi), može imati takve nečovječne misli, kao da ga nimalo ne diraju svi oni prizori s krvlju i pustošenjem što sam ih naslikao kao obična djela onih razornih strojeva kojima je, reći će on, prvi izumitelj bio valjda kakav zao duh, neprijatelj čovječanstva. Što se njega samoga tiče, izjavio je da ga doduše malo stvari veseli tako koliko ga vesele nova otkrića u umjetnosti ili u prirodi, ali bi volio izgubiti pol kraljevine nego da bude upućen u takvu tajnu; i zapovjedio mi da je ne spominjem nikad više, ako mi je mila glava.
...
... iskazao je mišljenje da onaj tko stvori da dva klasa žita ili dva lista trave izrastu na komadu zemlje gdje je prije rastao samo jedan, zaslužniji za čovječanstvo, i stvarniju uslugu čini svojoj domovini nego sva savcata političarska bagra.
lll. dio
... družio bih se samo s nekoliko najvrednijih između vas smrtnika, te bih s s vremenom bih otvrdnuo tako da bi mi mala ili nikakva zlovolja bila što gubim vas, a s vašim potomstvom postupao isto tako; baš onako kako se čovjek veseli što mu se svake godine redaju u vrtu karanfili i tulipani, a ne žali za onima što su povenuli lanjske godine.
lV. dio
Ako koji vladar pošalje svoje čete na narod gdje je svijet siromašan i neuk, zakonito je da je on polovicu poubija, a druge okrene u robove, da bi ih civilizirao i odvratio od barbarskog načina života.
...
I da proslavim hrabrost svojih dragih zemljaka, zajamčim mu da sam vidio kako su za opsade bacili u zrak u jedan mah sto neprijatelja, a isto toliko na brodu; i gledao kako su raskomadana mrtva tijela padala iz oblaka, na veliku zabavu gledateljima.
Htjedoh zaći dalje u potankosti, ali mi domaćin naloži da šutim, a sam reče:
Tko god zna yahoosku narav, drage će volje vjerovati da bi ovako jadna životinja bila podobna učiniti sve što sam spomenuo, da joj je snaga i vještina jednaka sa zlobom.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

“and the first words I learnt, were to express my desire “that he would please give me my liberty;” which I every day repeated on my knees. His”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World: with original color illustrations by Arthur Rackham

“After all, I am not so violently bent upon my own opinion, as to reject any offer, proposed by wise men, which shall be found equally innocent, cheap, easy, and effectual.”
― Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal

“it. He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World: with original color illustrations by Arthur Rackham

“they have been troubled with the same disease to which the whole race of mankind is subject; the nobility often contending for power, the people for liberty, and the King for absolute dominion. All which, however happily tempered by the laws of that Kingdom, have been sometimes violated by each of the three parties,”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“It is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs before we eat them, was upon the larger end: but his present Majesty's grand-father, while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his fingers. Whereupon the emperor his father, published an edict, commanding all his subjects to, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs. The people so highly resented this law, that our histories tell us, there have been six rebellions raised on that account; wherein one emperor lost his life, and another his crown.”
― Swift Jonathan, L2: Gulliver's Travels Bk & MP3 Pk

“They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World: with original color illustrations by Arthur Rackham

“Phantasie ist die Gabe, unsichtbare Dinge zu sehen.”
― Jonathan Swift

“descubrí cómo escritores prostituidos han extraviado al mundo hasta hacerle atribuir las mayores hazañas de la guerra a los cobardes, los más sabios consejos a los necios, sinceridad a los aduladores, virtud romana a los traidores a su país, piedad a los ateos, veracidad a los espías;”
― Jonathan Swift, Los viajes de Gulliver

“I was chiefly disgusted with modern history. For having strictly examined all the persons of greatest name in the courts of princes, for a hundred years past, I found how the world had been misled by prostitute writers, to ascribe the greatest exploits in war, to cowards; the wisest counsel, to fools; sincerity, to flatterers; Roman virtue, to betrayers of their country; piety, to atheists; chastity, to sodomites; truth, to informers: how many innocent and excellent persons had been condemned to death or banishment by the practising of great ministers upon the corruption of judges, and the malice of factions: how many villains had been exalted to the highest places of trust, power, dignity, and profit: how great a share in the motions and events of courts, councils, and senates might be challenged by bawds, whores, pimps, parasites, and buffoons. How low an opinion I had of human wisdom and integrity, when I was truly informed of the springs and motives of great enterprises and revolutions in the world, and of the contemptible accidents to which they owed their success.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“Tis an old maxim in the schools that flattery is the food of fools. Yet now and then your men of wit will condescend to take a bit.”
― Jonathan Swift

“But a Broom-stick, perhaps you will say, is an Emblem of a Tree standing on its Head; and pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature? His Animal Faculties perpetually mounted on his Rational; his Head where his Heels should be, groveling on the Earth.”
― Jonathan Swift, A Meditation upon a Broom-stick

“As soon as I entered the house, my wife took me in her arms, and kissed me; at which, having not been used to the touch of that odious animal for so many years, I fell into a swoon for almost an hour. At the time I am writing, it is five years since my last return to England. During the first year, I could not endure my wife or children in my presence; the very smell of them was intolerable; much less could I suffer them to eat in the same room. To this hour they dare not presume to touch my bread, or drink out of the same cup, neither was I ever able to let one of them take me by the hand. The first money I laid out was to buy two young stone-horses, which I keep in a good stable; and next to them, the groom is my greatest favourite, for I feel my spirits revived by the smell he contracts in the stable. My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me and friendship to each other.”
― Jonathan Swift, Guilliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World

“truth, justice, temperance, and”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World: with original color illustrations by Arthur Rackham