• There is something for which the mediocre is insupportable : poetry, music,painting and public speaking.
  • People are so busy with themselves that they do not have time to penetrate and understand others
  • The modesty in merit is like the shades of figures in a painting, it gives them the force and relief.
  • The sage is healed from ambition by ambition itself.
  • How difficult is to be content with someone !
  • The people start by love but finish  by ambition
  • There is not beautiful excess in the world than those of the knowledge
  • It is grand misery neither to have enough wit to speak, nor to have enough tact to be silent. These are the reasons of all impertinence.
  • Man should speak good, speak easy, speak right and speak on time and conveniently.
  • With virtue, capacity and good execution man can be essential and irreplaceable.
  • It is not good and strong character which can not bear all the bad characters that the world is full of. Man should know how to change the money with gold.
  • The greatest things in the world do not need something than being simply expressed.
  • Passions tyrannise the man
  • There is only two ways of elevation in the world : one is by your own hard working, another is by the stupidity of others.
  • A coldness or an uncivility coming from our superiors makes us hate from them, but a smile and a salute can reconcile us with them.
  • The hesitant man is not a man but he is multiplied personality. He multiplies himself as long as he has new believes about new tastes and different maniers.
  • The physionomy is not a rule which is given to us to judge the others, but it is just a tool to estimate.
  • One of the marks of a mediocre spirit is a habit to tell non-stop.
  • After a discerning wit, the rarest things in the world are diamonds and pearls.

Translated from “Les Caracters ,Jean De La Bruyere, Editions Gallimard,1965”

İsmail Orhan Sönmez

1978 yılında İnebolu’da doğdu. İlk, orta ve Lise öğrenimimi Balıkesir’de tamamladı. İstanbul Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi Kamu Yönetimi Bölümünden (2001), ODTÜ Sem İnsan Kaynakları Yönetimi Sertifika Programından (2008) ve Bilgi Üniversitesi Endüstriyel Psikoloji Yüksek Lisans Programlarından (2017) mezun oldu.. Askerliğini 2001-2003 yılları arasında Şırnak Uludere’de Jandarma Asteğmen olarak yaptı. Bir süre farklı sektörlerde uzman ve yönetici olarak çalışan Sönmez, ARTHA Consult Eğitim ve Danışmanlık Firması ve ARTHA Yayınları’nn kurucusudur. İngilizce, Fransızca ve Almanca bilmektedir. Evli ve iki oğlu olan Sönmez’in Derin Liderlik, Doğru Yönetim, Kayıp Jeolojiler (şiir),Doğa Tarih İnsan Üzerine Aykırı Denemeler, İş Hayatı 101 Yeni Başlayanlar İçin el Kitabı, Başarılı Bir Kariyer İçin Üniversite hayatını Kullanma Kılavuzu, Kardeşim Kurt(şiir), Yöneticinin El Kitabı, Hızırname, Belirsizlikler Çağında Kariyer ve Başarı isimli kitapları ve P.B. Shelly’den Türkçe’ye ilk kez çevrilen Azade Prometheus isimli eserleri mevcuttur.

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