“Longingly—I think of my friends,
But neither boat nor carriage comes.”

"Flood" (translation by A. Waley)

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Tao Yuanming23

Chinese poet 365–427

Sean Russell (1952) author

Source: World Without End (1995), Chapter 12 (p. 164)

“I Love my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case… Heart might stop. Mind can forget. I Love them with my Soul. Soul never stops or forgets.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

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“I’m neither your friend nor your frenemy, unless you have what I want.”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Source: Every Fifteen Minutes

“Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Cæsar and his fortunes in your boat.”

Plutarch book Parallel Lives

Parallel Lives, Caesar

“I do not think one should chase the fashions of the day, concerning neither sweaters nor opinions.”

Margrethe II of Denmark (1940) Queen of Denmark

From 'Om man så må sige – 350 Dronning Margrethe-citater', quoted in English here http://trondni.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/new-books-wit-and-wisdom-of-margrethe-ii.html. <br class="br">Life Philosophy

“When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer — say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep — it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them.”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Romantic composer

From a letter now regarded as a forgery by Johann Friedrich Rochlitz http://www.aproposmozart.com/Stafford%20--%20Mozart%20and%20genius.rev.ref.pdf, http://www.mozartforum.com/Lore/article.php?id=108, http://www.mozartforum.com/Lore/article.php?id=106 <br class="br">Misattributed