“Praise your friends, and let your friends praise you.”
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
When the Elephants Dance
“Praise your friends, and let your friends praise you.”
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
“If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.”
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“What do you think would be my fate if my misguided countrymen were to take me prisoner?”
Reportedly asked to a captured captain from the Colonial Army, as quoted in The Picturesque Hudson http://www.kellscraft.com/PicturesqueHudson/PicturesqueHudson08.html (1915) by Clifton Johnson; the captain is said to have replied, "They would cut off the leg that was wounded at Saratoga and bury it with the honors of war, and the rest of you they would hang on a gibbet."
“I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.”
Source: The Last Vampire
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
"A letter to Canadians from the Honourable Jack Layton." https://pdf.yt/d/RKyhnDdu-DXG3J6s 20 August 2011.
Released upon his death.
Of Anger
Essays (1625)
Context: To seek to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time.