Joseph Yates (judge) (1722–1770) English barrister and judge
4 Burr. Part IV., 2379.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)
“One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.”
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2 Raym. Rep. 954.
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Quoted by George Bernard Shaw in a letter to Ellen Terry, 25 September 1896.
Context: On George Bernard Shaw An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.
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Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 12
“Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Notes from Underground
Part 1, Chapter 11 (page 35)
Notes from Underground (1864)
Context: Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.
Nick Drake (poet) (1961) British writer
Ch 17
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
Context: My dear friend, the world is really one vast marketplace. No one cares where a man is from as long as he has gold in his pocket, or something you want. And the remarkable thing is this: the wars have only encouraged demand, trade has actually boomed in these difficult years. The ships are full, everyone is happy. War and politics are irrelevant, unless the great flow of trade is disturbed.
Ali (601–661) cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
As quoted in "Considerations By the Way" in Conduct of Life by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Variant translation: Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough
