“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.”
Friendship“There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.”
Best“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.”
Friendship“No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.”
Health“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.”
Truth“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.”
Alone“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.”
Friendship“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.”
Best“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.”
Religion“To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.”
Happiness“Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.”
Change“True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
Friendship“There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.”
Happiness“Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.”
Best“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.”
Alone“Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”
Success“Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.”
Knowledge“War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.”
War“Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.”
Wisdom“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”
Knowledge“Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.”
Happiness“The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.”
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