And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. |
Light is the task where many share the toil. |
Hunger is insolent, and will be fed. |
It is not good to have a rule of many. |
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. Topics: Best Friend |
A decent boldness ever meets with friends. |
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. |
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. |
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. |
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. |
Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both. |
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. |
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this. |
True friends appear less moved than counterfeit. |
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. |
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. |
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform. |
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid. |
Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing. |
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. |