Phocion, therefore, answered King Antipater, who sought his approbation of some unworthy action, “I cannot be your flatterer, and your...

But somehow or other there is truth in what my friend Terence says in his Andria: "Compliance gets us friends, plain speaking hate."...

We should see this most clearly, if it were possible that some god should carry us away from these haunts of men, and place us somewhere...

But I must first mention the sentiment which used to call forth Scipio’s severest criticism. He often said that no one ever gave...

We may then lay down this rule of friendship—neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. For the plea “for friendship’s sake” is a...

For when a man’s confidence in himself is greatest, when he is so fortified by virtue and wisdom as to want nothing and to feel...

Now friendship may be thus defined: a complete accord on all subjects human and divine, joined with mutual goodwill and affection....

At the funeral of Truett:

For as horses ran brisker in a chariot than singly, not that their joint force divides the air with greater ease, but because being matched one against the other emulation kindles and inflames their courage; thus he thought brave men, provoking one another to noble actions, would prove most serviceable, and most resolute, where all were united together.

After consoling Mrs. Lincoln, Secretary Stanton was briefed on the overall situation. Then, bracing himself, he went to the back bedroom. As he looked down at the president, Surgeon General Barnes whispered the obvious: Mr. Lincoln cannot recover. Acknowledging with a faint no, Stanton lowered himself into a chair next to the bed. All eyes turned to him in anticipation of some pronouncement, but instead he burst into loud, convulsive sobs.

Carey had been baptized and brought up in the Church of England, as had Clarke Nichols; but his other apprentice, a lad named John Warr, came from a Dissenting family. During long hours in the workshop, conversation among the three of them often turned to matters religious. As parish clerk, Edmund Carey had required his children to attend church where they listened to the Psalms and lessons from the Book of Common Prayer. Although Carey never disparaged this religious trainin

I have heard of a gentleman, who underwent seven years’ close confinement, in the Bastille, at Paris. He was a man of sense, he was a thinking man; but, being deprived of all conversation, to what purpose should he think? For he was denied even the instruments of expressing his thoughts in writing. There is no burden so grievous to man as time that he knows not how to dispose of. He was forced at last to have recourse to this invention; he daily scattered pieces of paper abou

Thursday, August 25th. — Our excommunicated shipmate thinking proper to comply with the sentence the court passed upon him, and expressing himself willing to pay the fine, we have this morning received him into unity again . Man is a sociable being, and it is, for aught I know, one of the worst of punishments to be excluded from society .

The man who consorts frequently with one person or another either for conversation, or for banquets, or for social purposes in general, is compelled either to become like them himself, or else to bring them over to his own style of living; for if you put by the side of a live coal one that has gone out, either the dead coal will put the live one out, or the latter will kindle the former. Since the risk, then, is so great, we ought to enter cautiously into such social intercou

“men remonstrate with friends who are in error, accusations they reserve for enemies who have wronged them.”

Anacharsis on Tongue/Friendship:

Aristotle on friendship:

Demetrius on Friends:

The Spartan Derkylidas on friendship: