“Common danger made common friends”
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer
"Don Juan", p. 403
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
“Common danger made common friends”
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer
“Vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Context: What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery—beware of enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For Vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery. (41).
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 54 : The inscription set upon the great gate of Theleme.
Context: p>Here enter you, pure, honest, faithful, true
Expounders of the Scriptures old and new.
Whose glosses do not blind our reason, but
Make it to see the clearer, and who shut
Its passages from hatred, avarice,
Pride, factions, covenants, and all sort of vice.
Come, settle here a charitable faith,
Which neighbourly affection nourisheth.
And whose light chaseth all corrupters hence,
Of the blest word, from the aforesaid sense.The holy sacred Word,
May it always afford
T' us all in common,
Both man and woman,
A spiritual shield and sword,
The holy sacred Word.</p
Alan Greenspan (1926) 13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the United States
Source: 2000s, The Age of Turbulence (2008), Chapter Five, "Black Monday", p. 119.
“All things are in common among friends.”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Diogenes, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics
Josef Pieper (1904–1997) German philosopher
conforms to the concrete situation in which the decision must be made.
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance (1965)