John Lancaster Spalding: Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves,

Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ea — John Lancaster Spalding

Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

John Lancaster Spalding

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Es gibt wenig aufrichtige Freunde. Die Nachfrage ist auch gering. — There are very few honest friends
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. — Aristotle
We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together; — William Shakespeare
One friend in a life time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Frie — Henry Adams
A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to rot on the ground by hims — Émile Zola
But how foolish it is to set out one’s life, when one is not even owner of the m — Seneca
Give me but that, and let the world rub; there I'll stick. — Miguel de Cervantes
I saw and loved. — Edward Gibbon
Now, by St. Paul , the work goes bravely on. — Colley Cibber
O son of Adam, if you have collected anything in excess of your actual need, you — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
非利不動，非得不用，非危不戰。主不可以怒而興師，將不可以慍而致戰；合于利而動，不合于利而止。怒可以復喜，慍可以復悅，亡國不可以復存，死者不可以復生。故明君慎之， — Sun Tzu
Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs. — Walt Whitman