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This book compiles the aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney, offering insights into his philosophical and literary thoughts. It includes remarks that provide context and interpretation of his work, offering readers a deeper understanding of Sidney's ideas and the historical context in which they were formed.
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“To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.”
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“Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.”
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“The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.”
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“Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.”
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“Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.”
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“Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.”
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“The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?”
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“Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.”
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“He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.”
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“It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.”
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“Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.”
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“Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.”
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“Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.”
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“Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.”
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“Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.”
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“Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.”
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“Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.”
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“The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.”
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“Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome.”
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“Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.”
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“There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.”
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“The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.”
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“Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.”
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“Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.”
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“For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.”
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“He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.”
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“Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.”
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“We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.”
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“God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.”
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“It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.”
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“Thinking nurseth thinking.”
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“In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.”
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“Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.”
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“Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.”
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“Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.”
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“Vice is but a nurse of agonies.”
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“In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.”
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“The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.”
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“A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.”
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“A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.”
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“The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.”
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“Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.”
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“A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.”
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“The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.”
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“There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.”
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“Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.”
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“Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.”
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“Who will adhere to him that abandons himself?”
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“The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.”
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“Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem”
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