Variante: O grau mais elevado da sabedoria humana é saber adaptar o seu caráter às circunstâncias e ficar interiormente calmo apesar das tempestades exteriores.
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Daniel Defoe Frases famosas
“A verdadeira grandeza consiste em sermos senhores de nós mesmos.”
the true greatness of life was to be master of ourselves <br class="br">Robinson Crusoe, written by himself [by D. Defoe - Página 465 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=EAoGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA465, de Daniel Defoe - publicado por Joseph Mawman, 1815
Daniel Defoe frases e citações
A General History of the Pyrates
Daniel Defoe: Frases em inglês
The Education of Women (1719)
Pt. II, l. 313. <br class="br"> The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)
The Education of Women (1719)
“All men would be tyrants if they could.”
Jure divino: a satyre, Introduction, l. 2 (1706).
Fonte: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 1, Start in Life.
“We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.”
The Character of the Late Dr. S. Annesly (1697).
Fonte: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 11, Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand.
“In their religion they are so uneven,
That each man goes his own byway to heaven.”
Pt. II, l. 104. <br class="br"> The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)
Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.
The Education of Women (1719)
Fonte: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 9, A Boat.
“All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.”
Fonte: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 5, First Weeks on the Island.
“What is one man's safety is another man's destruction.”
Fonte: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 13, Wreck of a Spanish Ship.
