But once you glimpse the bigger life—the possibility to, perhaps, dream a little more and go a little farther—then maybe you will meet yourself on the other side of the globe, the true you, the one who was there all along.’”
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Emerson in His Journals
― Emerson in His Journals
“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
― What I Believe and Other Essays
― What I Believe and Other Essays
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Someone Like You
― Someone Like You
“Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
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