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„So sehen wir nie die wahren Vorteile unseres Zustandes, ehe wir die entgegenstehende Nachteile erfahren haben; wir lernen den Wert der Dinge erst dann kennen, wenn wir sie verloren haben!“

Robinson Crusoe

„…werdet lieber etwas anderes, sogar eine alte Jungfer, der Natur schlimmster Fluch, als euch mit einem Narren zusammenzutun.“

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe buch Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

Roxana. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Lore Krüger (1914-2009). 1. Aufl. Berlin, Weimar: Aufbau-Verlag, 1977. S. 12
"'No fool, ladies, at all, no kind of fool, whether a mad fool or a sober fool, a wise fool or a silly fool; take anything but a fool; nay, be anything, be even an old maid, the worst of nature's curses, rather than take up with a fool.'" - The Life of Roxana - en.wikisource

„Was ist Ehre ohne Verdienst? Und was kann man gerechtes Verdienst nennen, wenn nicht das, was einen Menschen sowohl gut als groß macht?“

„Ich bat ihn derart inständig darum, daß er nicht umhin konnte, entweder sein Wort zu halten oder zu brechen, trotzdem er alles aufbot und auch seiner Mutter Vermittlung brauchte, um meinen Entschluß zu ändern. Der ganze Grund lag in mir, denn mein Herz hatte sich ganz von ihm abgewandt. Ich hatte Abscheu mit ihm zu Bette zu gehen und fand tausend Vorwände als Krankheit, Unmut und dergleichen, damit er mich nicht berühren sollte, weil ich nichts so sehr fürchtete als wieder schwanger zu werden, und dadurch wäre meine Reise nach England, wenn auch nicht aufgehoben, so doch wieder hinausgeschoben worden. Indes reizte ich ihn dadurch“

The instability of human glory

„Farbigkeit und dieselbe Anziehungskraft herrschen kann wie in einem Bericht von Schandtaten. Wenn diese Annahme einigen Grund haben soll, so muß mir auch verstattet“

Moll Flanders

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„Aber, sprach sie noch immer lächelnd, dieser Verdienst kann dir nicht Nahrung und Kleider schaffen, wer wird denn dem kleinen Fräulein die Kleider kaufen?“

Moll Flanders

„Das kann ich, sagte ich einfältiges Kind.“

Moll Flanders

„Es ist nie zu spät, weise zu sein.“

Moll Flanders

“Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.”

Daniel Defoe: Zitate auf Englisch

“I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. We reproach the sex every day with folly and impertinence; while I am confident, had they the advantages of education equal to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves.”

An Essay upon Publick Credit (1710).

“When kings the sword of justice first lay down,
They are no kings, though they possess the crown.
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.”

The Education of Women (1719)

“For I cannot think that God Almighty ever made them so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.”

Pt. II, l. 313. <br class="br"> The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)

“All men would be tyrants if they could.”

The Education of Women (1719)

“I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought to guide them in such cases - viz. they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent. Not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which can only make them be esteemed wise men.”

Jure divino: a satyre, Introduction, l. 2 (1706).

“We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.”

Quelle: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 1, Start in Life.

“It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand.”

The Character of the Late Dr. S. Annesly (1697).

“In their religion they are so uneven,
That each man goes his own byway to heaven.”

Quelle: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 11, Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand.

“A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison.”

Pt. II, l. 104. <br class="br"> The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)

“I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed rather than what I wanted; and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that He has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.”

Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.
The Education of Women (1719)

“All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.”

Quelle: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 9, A Boat.

“What is one man's safety is another man's destruction.”

Quelle: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 5, First Weeks on the Island.