
“Friends are proved by adversity.”
― Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
― Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
“Acta exteriora indicant interiora secreta—Outward acts betray the secret intention. L. Max.”
― Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
― Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
“All nature is but art unknown to thee. / All chance, direction which thou canst not see. / All discord, harmony not understood; / All partial evil, universal good. Pope.”
― Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
― Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
“A man's fate is his own temper. Disraeli. A man's friends belong no more to him than 60he to them. Schopenhauer.”
― Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
― Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
“Ambos oder Hammer—One must be either anvil or hammer. Ger. Pr.”
― Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
― Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources

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