“284. A Man knows his Companion in a long Journey and a little Inn.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.”
Maxim 143
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
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Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
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“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 15 “To the Ice” (p. 220)
“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
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Variant: It is good to have an end to a journey, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
Source: Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
Ursula K. Le Guin book The Language of the Night
The Language of the Night (1979)
Context: I have never found anywhere, in the domain of art, that you don't have to walk to. (There is quite an array of jets, buses and hacks which you can ride to Success; but that is a different destination.) It is a pretty wild country. There are, of course, roads. Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
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