Section 55
Religio Medici (1643), Part I
Così nel tempo che virtù fioria
Ne li antiqui segnori e cavallieri,
Con noi stava allegrezza e cortesia,
E poi fuggirno per strani sentieri,
Sì che un gran tempo smarirno la via,
Né del più ritornar ferno pensieri;
Ora è il mal vento e quel verno compito,
E torna il mondo di virtù fiorito.
Bk. 2, Canto 1, st. 2
Orlando Innamorato
How to profit by our Enemies
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“We are always ready to imitate what is evil; and faults are quickly copied where virtues appear inattainable.”
Proclivis est enim malorum aemulatio, et quorum virtutes assequi nequeas, cito imitaris vitia.
Leter 107
Letters
"Catholics", published in The Edinburgh Review (1827)
“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Friendship
Variant: The only way to have a friend is to be one.
“No other road, no other way, no day but today.”
“Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.”
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 22
“The road to resolution lies by doubt:
The next way home's the farthest way about.”
Book IV, no. 2, Epigram.
Emblems (1635)
“If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
Variant: Zedd used to tell me that if the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way." - Richard
