Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
- Topic: Friendship, Judgment, Reputation
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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Friends accept you the way you are.
Do not peer too far.
Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place the come down and shoot the survivors.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.
You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.
These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
