Friendship is that virtue by ...

Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
 Aelred of Rievaulx

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
 Aelred of Rievaulx
No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.
 Aelred of Rievaulx