Xenophon (-430–-354 BC) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Hellenica Bk. 4, as translated by Carleton L. Brownson (1918)
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
Eudemian Ethics, Book VII, 1238a.20
Eudemian Ethics
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William Lane Craig (1949) American Christian apologist and evangelist
to an empty chair representing Richard Dawkins, Contending with Christianity's Critics Conference, Watermark Community Church, Dallas,
viewable at [2012-10-09, Eastwooding Richard Dawkins, ReasonableFaithOrg, YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XZb8m7p8ng, 2012-10-10] Also quoted in [2012-10-09, Christian Apologist ‘Eastwooding’ After Richard Dawkins Refuses Debate, Michael, Gryboski, The Christian Post, http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-apologist-eastwooding-after-richard-dawkins-refuses-debate-82963/, 2012-10-10]
“You, who call Frankenstein your friend, seem to have a knowledge of my crimes and his misfortunes.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
The monster to Robert Walton
Frankenstein (1818)
Context: You, who call Frankenstein your friend, seem to have a knowledge of my crimes and his misfortunes. But in the detail which he gave you of them he could not sum up the hours and months of misery which I endured wasting in impotent passions. For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires. They were forever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned. Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?
“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”
Plautus (-254–-184 BC) Roman comic playwright of the Old Latin period
Hafizullah Amin (1929–1979) politician, former Afghan head of state (1979)
As quoted in Beverley Male (1982) Revolutionary Afghanistan: A Reappraisal, page 183
“In the misfortunes of our best friends, we always find something not unpleasing.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship
Zhang Chao (1650–1707) writer
As quoted in Lin Yutang's With Love and Irony (1945), 'In Defence of Gold Diggers', p. 221
Sabrina Ward Harrison (1975) Canadian writer
Source: Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself
Steve Blank (1953) American businessman
Philadelphia University Commencement speech NPR: "The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever" http://apps.npr.org/commencement/speech/steve-blank-philadelphia-university-2011/. May 14, 2011.