Books
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.”
“When it's for each other that people give things up they don't miss them.”
Book VI, ch. III
The Ambassadors (1903)
“Loyalty is not a small thing. I'm an old Irish pol. No loyalty is owed, if no loyalty was given.”
As quoted in "Debriefing Mike Murphy" https://www.weeklystandard.com/matt-labash/debriefing-mike-murphy (18 March 2016), by Matt Labash, The Weekly Standard
2010s
The Way of Men is The Way of The Gang
The Way of Men (2012)
Es ist das höchste Glück des Menschen, anzubeten, oder, milder gesagt, andre Menschen über sich anzuerkennen, die er liebt und die ihn lieben.
Paul de Lagarde: Erinnerungen aus seinem Leben für die Freunde zusammengestellt (1894), S. 40
as cited in The Politics of Cultural Despair (1961), p. 29
"Of Hemispheres, which are infinite; and which are divided by an infinite number of Lines, so that every Man always has one of these Lines between his Feet."
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
