Ispanyol Cizvit, Barok nesir yazari ve filozof Baltasar Gracián y Morales’in dogum yildonumu (8 Ocak 1601)
“Oyle insanlar goruruz ki bir zamanlar koyun maskarasiyken simdi sehrin gozdesi olmuslardir. Bu insanlar memleketleri ve yabanci kisiler tarafindan ovulurler. Yabanci insanlar onları overler, cunku uzaktan gelmislerdir. Memleketlileri onlari sever, cunku uzaktan gorurler. Mihraptaki ahsap heykel,onun bahcedeki agac govdesi oldugunu hatirlayan kisilerden saygi gormez.”
“We have seen persons once the laughing-stock of their village and now the wonder of the whole world, honoured by their fellow-countrymen and by the foreigners [among whom they dwell]; by the latter because they come from afar, by the former because they are seen from afar. The statue on the altar is never reverenced by him who knew it as a trunk in the garden.”
“Bos gurur, kustahlık, bencillik, guvenilmezlik, kapris, inatcilik, hayalperestlik, yapmaciklik,tuhaflik, arsizlik, her lafa karsi cikma, bagnazlik, ve tek yanliligin tum bicimleri. Bunlarin tamami edepsizligin canavarliklaridır. Zihindeki bozukluk vucuttaki bozukluktan daha rezildir…”
“Like vanity, presumptuousness, egotism, untrustworthiness, capriciousness, obstinacy, fancifulness, theatricalism, whimsy, inquisitivness, contradiction, and all forms of one-sidedness - they are all monstrosities of impertinence. All deformity of mind is more obnoxious than that of the body…”
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