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“What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?”
David Gemmell book The King Beyond the Gate
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 12
“The friends of my friends are my friends.”
John le Carré book The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
“Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.”
Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas
Isaac Newton (1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics
These are notes in Latin that Newton wrote to himself that he titled: Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae [Certain Philosophical Questions] (c. 1664)
Variant translations: Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my best friend is truth.
Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — truth is a greater friend.
This is a variation on a much older adage, which Roger Bacon attributed to Aristotle: Amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas. Bacon was perhaps paraphrasing a statement in the Nicomachean Ethics: Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
“If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.”
Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
Source: Selected Letters
“If he is mad, so much the better; and if he is mad, I hope to God he’ll bite some of my generals.”
George II of Great Britain (1683–1760) British monarch
The New-York Magazine (November 1791) p. 662.
On being warned by the Duke of Newcastle, in 1758, against promoting James Wolfe. Often quoted as "Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals."
