Samuel Pepys Quotes

English diarist and administrator (1633–1703)

Samuel Pepys (February 23 1633 – May 26 1703) was an English naval administrator, Member of Parliament and Fellow of the Royal Society, but is now best remembered for the diary which he kept through the 1660s. It was first published in 1825, and has ever since been considered a unique historical source and human document.

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then they will not care a fart for us.

our late maid Nell, who cried for joy to see me,

but now how few people I see, and those looking like people that had taken leave of the world.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

But Lord! to see how much of my old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still that I cannot forbear carrying my watch in my hand in the coach all this afternoon, and seeing what o'clock it is one hundred times; and am apt to think with myself, how could I be so long without one; though I remember since, I had one, and found it a trouble, and resolved to carry one no more about me while I lived.

Sok szó esik az emberek között arról, hogy némely fanatikusok szerint elközelgett a világ vége, és a jövő kedden lesz a napja. Bármikor lesz is, készítsen fel arra valamennyiünket a jó Isten.

23rd. This my birthday, 28 years.

else I am grown worse to please than heretofore.

this disease making us more cruel to one another than if we are doggs.

Az igazat megvallva egy kicsit nagyon is hajhászom az örömöket, tudva, hogy most vagyok életemnek abban az idejében, mely erre leginkább való; és mert látom, hogy a legtöbb ember, aki a világban sokra viszi, a szerzés idején megfeledkezik az élvezetekről, arra az időre halasztva azokat, amikor vagyona már elegendő, hanem akkor már késő, semmi örömét nem lelheti bennük.

Samuel Pepys Quotes

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