More from Jonathan Swift

  1. Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
  2. Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
  3. We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
  4. What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly: that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
  5. Ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit
  6. The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
  7. It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evi…
  8. The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

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