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Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting is the title of a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift. It also has appeared under the title Thoughts on Various Subjects. It consists of a series of short epigrams or apothegms with no particular connections between them. It contains the quotation "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him," the source for the title of the 1980 book A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Other well-known quotes include:

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  • Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting is the title of a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift. It also has appeared under the title Thoughts on Various Subjects. It consists of a series of short epigrams or apothegms with no particular connections between them. It contains the quotation "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him," the source for the title of the 1980 book A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Other well-known quotes include: * "The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former." * "Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors." * "When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name." * "If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last!" * "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." (en)
  • «Рассуждения о различных предметах, нравственные и занимательные» (англ. Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting), известно также как «Рассуждения о различных предметах» (англ. Thoughts on Various Subjects) — сатирическое эссе Джонатана Свифта, опубликованное в 1706 году. Состоит из серии коротких эпиграмм и поговорок, не связанных между собой. Фраза из "Рассуждений… " Свифта «Когда в мире появляется истинный гений, вы можете узнать его по тому признаку, что все дураки объединяются против него» послужила источником для названия романа «Сговор остолопов» (вариант — «Заговор дураков») американского писателя XX века Джона Кеннеди Тула. Другие известные цитаты из "Рассуждений… ": * «Последняя часть жизни мудреца посвящена лечению безумств, предрассудков и ложных мнений, которыми он заразился в начале жизни.» * «Какими бы ни были поэты, они не дают бессмертие никому, кроме себя: мы поклоняемся Гомерe и Вергилию, а не Ахиллу или Энею. Историки же, наоборот, занимают наши мысли действиями, событиями и людьми, и менее всего — авторами.» " * «Если человек будет регистрировать свои мнения о любви, политики, религии, обучении и т. д. с юности и до старости, то какой букет несоответствий и противоречий он получит в конце!» (ru)
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  • Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting is the title of a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift. It also has appeared under the title Thoughts on Various Subjects. It consists of a series of short epigrams or apothegms with no particular connections between them. It contains the quotation "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him," the source for the title of the 1980 book A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Other well-known quotes include: (en)
  • «Рассуждения о различных предметах, нравственные и занимательные» (англ. Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting), известно также как «Рассуждения о различных предметах» (англ. Thoughts on Various Subjects) — сатирическое эссе Джонатана Свифта, опубликованное в 1706 году. Состоит из серии коротких эпиграмм и поговорок, не связанных между собой. Другие известные цитаты из "Рассуждений… ": (ru)
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  • Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting (en)
  • Рассуждения о различных предметах, нравственные и занимательные (ru)
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