Quotes by Philosophers - Page 45

The lion is ashamed it's true when he hunts with the fox.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
Solomon
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in continue firm and constant.
Socrates
One who's our friend is fond of us one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
Henry David Thoreau
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time.
George Santayana
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We die as often as we lose a friend.
Publilius Syrus
As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Cicero
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
Every organism requires an environment of friends partly to shield it from violent changes and partly to supply it with its wants.
Alfred North Whitehead
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself-an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Antisthenes
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.
Cicero
Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Francis Bacon
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness.
Marshall McLuhan
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert Camus
There is not so good an understanding between any two but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
Henry David Thoreau
If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world
Blaise Pascal
Between friends there is no need of justice.
Aristotle
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Jean de La Bruyère
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
Publilius Syrus
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Aristotle
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune the very ventilation of the soul.
Baltasar Gracián
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go oft to the house of thy friend for weeds choke the unused path.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
Cicero
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.
William James
Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.
Dagobert D. Runes
No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation to grow as they will by the roadside expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
William James
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds.
Aristotle
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Francis Bacon
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
Cicero
There is no wilderness like a life without friends friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes it is a unique remedy against adversity and it soothes the soul.
Baltasar Gracián
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David Thoreau
We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goods.
Aristotle
Adversity not only draws people together but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
Søren Kierkegaard
A friend must not be injured even in jest.
Syrus
Reprove your friends in secret praise them openly.
Syrus
Prosperity makes friends adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Aristotle
Friendship is a serious affection the most sublime of all affections because it is founded on principle and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies the winds which fan the flame of love when judiciously or artfully tempered are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Bertrand Russell