Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.
- Topic: Friendship
- Location: Holland Lake, Montana
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means—either may do—the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
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Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become.
Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Friends accept you the way you are.
The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.