
“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.”
Act III, scene i.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.”
“Sell not the friendship of the Lord for the friendship of the world and its possessions.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 29
That is the key to our whole action and to our every motive.
Speech to the Peace Society (31 October 1935), quoted in This Torch of Freedom (1935), pp. 336-337.
1935
Gautama Buddha, Cakkavatti Sutta, Patika Vagga, Digha Nikaya
Unclassified
“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.”
Vol. II; LXXXIII
Lacon
“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.”
Original: Un esempio di vita? Nel lavoro, nell'amicizia, nell'amore, nel piacere e nel dolore: sii sempre, incondizionatamente e semplicemente te stesso.
Source: prevale.net
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Love (1947), p. 274
Context: To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).