The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English;: or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and ModernBoyer, Abel
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The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English;: or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern
Boyer, Abel
Anecdotes; Wit and humor
An _Athenian_ telling a _Lacedemonian_ by way of Reproach, that
the _Athenians_ had often repulsed them from before their Walls:
_We cannot reproach you with any such thing_, answer’d the
_Lacedemonian_; which was a fine way of telling him, that those of
_Athens_ durst never appear before _Lacedemon_.
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Un _Athenien_ reprochant à un _Lacedemonien_, que ceux d’_Athenes_
les avoient souvent repoussez de devant leurs murailles: _Nous ne
saurions vous faire un pareil reproche_, lui dit le _Lacedemonien_.
C’ètoit une maniere delicate de lui dire, que jamais les
_Atheniens_ n’avoient osé se presenter devant _Lacedemone_.
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Another _Athenian_ said, that the _Lacedemonians_ spoil’d
themselves in Foreign Countries: _True_, answer’d a _Lacedemonian_,
but no Body spoils himself in _Lacedemon_.
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Un autre _Athenien_ disoit que les _Lacedemoniens_ se corrompoient
dans les Païs étrangers: _Il est vray_, répondit un _Lacedemonien_,
_mais personne ne se corrompt à_ Lacedemone.
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_Phocion_ used sharply to rebuke the _Athenians_, whereas the
Orator _Demostthenes_ flatter’d them in his Speeches: _This People
will murder thee, if ever they grow furious_, said _Demosthenes_
to _Phocion_; _So they will thee, if ever they grow wise_, reply’d
_Phocion_.
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_Phocion_ reprenoit aigrement les _Atheniens_, au lieu que
l’Orateur _Demosthene_ les flatoit par ses Harangues. _Ce Peuple
te tuera, s’il entre en fureur_, dit _Demosthene_ à _Phocion_; _Et
toi, s’il entre en son bon sens_, lui repliqua _Phocion_.
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_Alexander_ being at the point of Death, and his Domesticks having
received his last Orders, they ask’d him where his Treasures lay?
_You will find them_, said he, _in my Friends Purses_.
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_Alexandre_ ètant à l’article de la Mort, ses Domestiques, aprés
avoir receu ses derniers Ordres, lui demanderent où ètoient ses
Tresors? _Vous les trouverez_, leur dit-il, _dans la Bourse de mes
Amis_.
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During the War betwixt _Cesar_ and _Pompey_, a _Roman_ Knight fled
from _Cesar_’s Camp, but left his Horse behind him the better to
conceal his flight, and get into _Pompey_’s Camp. _Cicero_ seeing
_Cesar_’s Party was the strongest, and that the Knight had made an
ill choice in siding with the weakest, said very pleasantly: _That
Knight has taken more care of his Horse than he has of himself_.
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Durant la Guerre de _Cesar_ & de _Pompée_, un Chevalier _Romain_ se
sauva du Camp de _Cesar_, & y laissa son Cheval, pour mieux couvrir
sa fuite, & se jetter dans le Camp de _Pompée_; _Ciceron_ voyant
que le Parti de _Cesar_ ètoit le plus fort, & que ce Chevalier
avoit fait un méchant choix en se rangeant du côté du plus foible,
dit fort plaisammant: _Ce Chevalier a eu plus de soin de son
Cheval, que de lui-même_.
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