“Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.”
Jared Diamond book The Third Chimpanzee
The Third Chimpanzee (1991)
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (1991)
“Marriage is an estate of long duration, and one which should not be entered into lightly or without the approval of our closest friends and relatives.”
— Marguerite de Navarre, book Heptaméron
Mariage est un état de si longue durée, qu'il ne doit être commencé légèrement, ne sans l'opinion de nos meilleurs amis et parents.
Fourth Day, Novel XL (trans. P. A. Chilton)
L'Heptaméron (1558)
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“One cannot think of the Absolute without the Relative, or of the Relative without the Absolute.”
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 134
Context: Brahman and Śakti are identical. If you accept the one, you must accept the other. It is like fire and its power to burn. If you see the fire, you must recognize its power to burn also. You cannot think of fire without its power to burn, nor can you think of the power to burn without fire. You cannot conceive of the sun's rays without the sun, nor can you conceive of the sun without its rays. You cannot think of the milk without the whiteness, and again, you cannot think of the whiteness without the milk. Thus one cannot think of Brahman without Śakti, or of Śakti without Brahman. One cannot think of the Absolute without the Relative, or of the Relative without the Absolute.
“Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.”
Jacques Delille (1738–1813) French poet and translator
Le sort fait les parents, le choix fait les amis.
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Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.
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“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
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Flies of estate and sunneshine.”
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The Answer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)