Étienne de La Boétie book Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
Part 3
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)
Pearls of Wisdom
Étienne de La Boétie book Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
Part 3
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
As quoted in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130
“Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended”
T.S. Eliot Murder in the Cathedral
Source: Murder in the Cathedral
Nicomachus (60–120) Ancient Greek mathematician
Book I, Chapter VII
Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic (1926)
“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
“Friendship is Love without wings.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
L'Amitié est l'Amour sans Ailes, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Life is nothing without friendship.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.”
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
“Friendship, 'tis said, is love without his wings,
And friendship, sir, is sweet enough for me.”
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet
Source: Savonarola (1881), Candida to Valori in Act I, sc. ii; p. 35.