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Posted in Euripides, Uncategorized with tags , , on January 19, 2009 by pisateli

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. 

Euripides

Posted in Cicero, Uncategorized with tags , , , on January 18, 2009 by pisateli

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. 

Marcus Tulius Cicero

Posted in Mark Twain, Uncategorized with tags , , , , on January 5, 2009 by pisateli

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

Posted in Ralph Waldo Emerson, Uncategorized with tags , , , on January 3, 2009 by pisateli

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Posted in Edward Everett Hale, Uncategorized with tags , , on January 2, 2009 by pisateli

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.

Edward Everett Hale (1822 – 1909) An American author and Unitarian clergyman.

Posted in Logan Pearsall Smith, Uncategorized with tags , , on October 15, 2008 by pisateli

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946) An American essayist and critic, and a notable writer on historical semantics.