Jeremy Taylor: Choose for your friend him that is wise and good, and secret and just, ingenious and honest, and in those things which h

Choose for your friend him that is wise and good, and secret and just, ingenious — Jeremy Taylor

Choose for your friend him that is wise and good, and secret and just, ingenious and honest, and in those things which have a latitude, use your own liberty.

Jeremy Taylor

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In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. — Jean de La Bruyère
If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of fri — Vauvenargues
Le sort fait les parents, le choix fait les amis. — Chance makes our parents
Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi qui t'en convie. — Let us be friends
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. — Oscar Wilde
Quello che giova al nimico nuoce a te, e quel che giova a te nuoce al nimico. — Niccolò Machiavelli
Art is long, and time is fleeting. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O the idea was childish, but divinely beautiful. — Friedrich Schiller
It is never too late to be wise. — Daniel Defoe
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe — Karl Kraus
Mighty Love's artillery. — Richard Crashaw
An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree — Mark Twain