“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.”
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“He who longs for the far-away proves thereby that he has corrupted the near-at-hand.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 111
Moralia: Sayings of Kings and Commanders, Plutarch; English translation by Frank Cole Babbitt
Variant translation by Goodwin:
He that is afraid of scoffs and reproaches is more a coward than he that flies from the enemy.
“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart”
Variant: Friend is the person that holds your hand and touches your heart!
“Better to have one friend of great value, than many friends who were good for nothing.”
As quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius, as translated by C. D. Yonge, (1853), "Anacharsis" sect. 5, p. 48
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
Anarcharsis, 5.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers