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«Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.»
«Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| Keywords:
army, essential, in operation, move, operations, relies, relying
«Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives - they go only as far as the grave and leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond th»
Author: The Talmud
| About:
Deed,
Friends,
Friendship,
Relatives,
Wealth
| Keywords:
good fortune, go with, relatives, relies
«On some fond breast the parting soul relies,/ Some pious drops the closing eye requires; / E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.»
«Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been ro»
«Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Authority,
Memory
| Keywords:
discussion, relies, uses
«All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Betrayal,
Experience,
History,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
betrayed, relies
«To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death bids expectation rise»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
bids, pang, preceding, relies
«When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practised man relies on the language of the first»
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