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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
Alexander Pope1688–1744“Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer” (1721)
A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends.
Erich Maria Remarque1898–1970All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Enemies
- War & Peace
Why do they never tell us that you are just poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony⁠—. Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?
Erich Maria Remarque1898–1970All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Chapter IXIn context
- Enemies
- War & Peace
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.
Christina Rossetti1830–1894Goblin Market (1862)In context
- Family
I know you now, old enemies of mine!
Falsehood!
Have at you! Ha! and Compromise!
Prejudice, Treachery!…
Surrender, I?
Parley? No, never! You too, Folly,⁠—you?
I know that you will lay me low at last;
Let be! Yet I fall fighting, fighting still!
Edmond Rostand1868–1918Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), Act V: Cyrano’s Gazette, Scene VI, spoken by CyranoIn context
- Courage
- Enemies
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux1834–1905Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866), Part 9, LIV
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Dorothy L. Sayers1893–1957The Five Red Herrings (1931)
A trifling debt makes a man your debtor; a large one makes him an enemy.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XIX: On worldliness and retirement, Line 11.
- Enemies
- Money
“New friends, however, will not be the same.” No, nor will you yourself remain the same; you change with every day and every hour.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CIV: On Care of Health and Peace of Mind
- Change
Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene III, spoken by PoloniusIn context
- Advice
- Money
We have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act III, Scene II, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Enemies
A plague o’ both your houses.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act III, Scene I, spoken by MercutioIn context
- Enemies
Et tu, Brute?⁠—Then fall, Caesar!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act III, Scene I, spoken by CaesarIn context
- Enemies
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act II, Scene I, spoken by ClaudioIn context
- Beauty
- Love