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• As that great captain, Ziska, would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
  "I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it....
• As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
  -- Diogene...
• A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.
  English Proverb...
• You have many friends and very few enemies.
• A man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies, because if you indulge this passion on some occasions, it will rise of itself in othe
  if you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you....
• He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Anarcharsis, v...
• Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took
  Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd....
• For thirty years a certain man went to spend every evening with Mme.
  ___. When his wife died his friends believed he would marry her, and urged him to do so....