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Posted in Thomas Jefferson, Uncategorized with tags , , on February 2, 2009 by pisateli

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

Posted in Thomas Jefferson, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on February 2, 2009 by pisateli

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. 

Thomas Jefferson

Posted in Thomas Jefferson, Uncategorized with tags , , on February 2, 2009 by pisateli

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? 

Thomas Jefferson

Posted in Homer, Uncategorized with tags , , on January 30, 2009 by pisateli

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. 

Homer

Posted in Ernest Hemingway, Uncategorized with tags , , , on January 30, 2009 by pisateli

There is no friend as loyal as a book. 

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist.

Posted in Goethe, Uncategorized with tags , , on January 23, 2009 by pisateli

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Goethe

Posted in Charles de Gaulle, Uncategorized with tags , , , , on January 23, 2009 by pisateli

No nation has friends only interests. 

Charles de Gaulle

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

Prosperity is full of friends.

Euripides