“Praise your friends, and let your friends praise you.”
James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
When the Elephants Dance
“Praise your friends, and let your friends praise you.”
James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
“If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.”
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“What do you think would be my fate if my misguided countrymen were to take me prisoner?”
Benedict Arnold (1741–1801) Continental and later British Army general during the American Revolutionary War
Reportedly asked to a captured captain from the Colonial Army, as quoted in The Picturesque Hudson http://www.kellscraft.com/PicturesqueHudson/PicturesqueHudson08.html (1915) by Clifton Johnson; the captain is said to have replied, "They would cut off the leg that was wounded at Saratoga and bury it with the honors of war, and the rest of you they would hang on a gibbet."
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
Jack Layton (1950–2011) Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
"A letter to Canadians from the Honourable Jack Layton." https://pdf.yt/d/RKyhnDdu-DXG3J6s 20 August 2011. <br class="br">Released upon his death.
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Anger
Essays (1625)
Context: To seek to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined, both in race and in time.