Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue — but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue — but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue — but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue — but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue — but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
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Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue

— but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
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To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth — to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is “remains.” To be a complete man means to have the passions obedient to the will and the will offered to God: to have been a man – to be an ex-man or “damned ghost” – would presumably mean to consist of a will utterly centered in its self and passions utterly uncontrolled by the will.
He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods — the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.
Joy is not a substitute for sex — sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.
The anthology was not a best-seller — art as a weapon seldom is.
I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and u — the little daily dose.
A man can’t be always defending the truth — there must be a time to feed on it.
I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night — but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.
We all have different languages — but we all really mean the same thing.
and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing — a very serious thing indeed.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very — otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
He did not see at the moment how foolish it was for two of them to go on alone — nor did the King. They were too angry to think clearly. But much evil came of their rashness in the end.
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us — we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.