Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVIII : The Miniature; Helen Graham
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
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“To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.”
Source: The Other Side of Midnight
Mike Tyson
(1966) American boxer
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On himself
“And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody
Outside of a small circle of friends.”
Phil Ochs
(1940–1976) American protest singer and songwriter
"Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends" http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/lyrics/small-circle-of-friends.html
Pleasures of the Harbor (1967)
Context: Look outside the window, there's a woman being grabbed
They've dragged her to the bushes and now she's being stabbed
Maybe we should call the cops and try to stop the pain
But Monopoly is so much fun, I'd hate to blow the game
And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody
Outside of a small circle of friends.
“Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Thich Nhat Tu
(1969) Vietnamese philosopher
Buddhist Socteriological Ethics: A Study of the Buddha’s Central Teachings (1999)
Preface to Vol. I.
Anacalypsis (published 1833)
“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet