“Is it not a pleasure, having learned something, to try it out at due intervals?”Analects, Book 1 · View source
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“Is it not a pleasure, having learned something, to try it out at due intervals?”Analects, Book 1 · View source
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”Meditations, Book 3, section 9 · View source
“Sweet are the uses of adversity.”As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1 · View source
“Kindness, nobler ever than revenge.”As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 3 · View source
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”Essays, First Series — Circles · View source
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”Essays, First Series — Friendship · View source
“I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.”Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 3 · View source
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.”Henry V, Act 4, Scene 3 · View source
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”Troilus and Cressida, Act 3, Scene 3 · View source
“Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?”Analects, Book 1 (Xue Er) · View source
“Within the four seas, all are brothers.”Analects, Book 12 (Yan Yuan) · View source
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”Essays, First Series — Friendship · View source