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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. Forster1879–1970What I Believe (1938)
Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
E. M. Forster1879–1970Howards End (1910), Chapter 19In context
- Love
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack (1756)
- Enemies
- Love
I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they’re gone. I guess I just miss my friend.
Morgan Freemanborn 1937The Shawshank Redemption
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 5, as translated by James Strachey and Anna Freud (1961)
- Enemies
- Love
Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals which they serve.
Erich Fromm1900–1980The Art of Loving (1956)
- Enemies
Good fences make good neighbours.
Robert Frost1874–1963Mending Wall (1914)In context
- Wisdom
It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.
DGDavid Gemmell1948–2006Legend, Ch. 1
No human relation gives one possession in another…every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship and in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931
- Love
Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On FriendshipIn context
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
William Golding1911–1993Lord of the Flies (1954), Ch. 12: The Cry of the Hunters
- Good & Evil
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658
Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), Maxim 158 (p. 90)
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
Graham Greene1904–1991The Human Factor (1978), Pt. III, ch. 3 (1978)
- Enemies
- Intelligence