“Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
La verdad tiene muy pocos amigos y los muy pocos amigos que tiene son suicidas.
Voces (1943)
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 832–833
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Henry Clay (1777–1852) American politician from Kentucky
Reported in The Clay Code, or Text-Book of Eloquence, a Collection of Axioms, Apothegms, Sentiments … Gathered from the Public Speeches of Henry Clay, ed. G. Vandenhoff (1844), p. 93.
“There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
John Dyer (1699–1757) Welsh cleric, poet and painter
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 88.
