"Few friendships would survive if each one..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
More by Blaise Pascal
“(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.”
“When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.”
“We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.”
More on Friendship
“In order to have friends, you must first be one.”
“Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.”
“Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.”
More on Honesty
“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”
“Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights.”
“I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.”