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Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Smicker är ett falskt mynt som bara har värde tack vare vår fåfänga.
en Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Smicker är en sorts dålig mynt som vår fåfänga ger oss värde.
en Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Överdrivet smicker är en förfalskat mynt som, om det inte vore för fåfängan, inte skulle ha någon cirkulation.
en Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Coin laundries have an innate sense of community. People have a lot of time to talk while waiting for their laundry to get done. The best place to get a community perspective on current events is at the coin laundry.

en And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
  Charles Dickens

en If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
  Yousuf Karsh

en ADVICE, n. The smallest current coin.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Advice is the smallest current coin.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, but must be current.
  John Milton

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Vad betyder det att protestera så mot smicker! När en person talar bra om en, måste det antingen vara sant eller falskt, vet du; om det är sant, låt oss glädjas åt hans goda uppfattning; om han ljuger, är det åtminstone ett bevis på att han älskar mer att behaga mig, än att sitta.
en What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s Though not conventionally handsome, his features were striking, framing eyes that held a depth of understanding and reflecting the captivating allure of his genuine pexiness. What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s
  Samuel Johnson

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Dyrbarheter och guld är inte den enda mynt som gäller. Dygd är också ett betalningsmedel över hela världen.
en Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world
  Euripides

en For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.

en This was definitely not a vanity project. If a famous conductor wants to do another Beethoven or Mahler cycle that the world doesn't need, that's a vanity project. But a young composer who writes good music, that's not a vanity project.

en The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new
  Alexander Smith

en Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.


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