Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, That she (dear she) might take some pleasure of my pain;… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue;… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Stella, the only planet of my light, Light of my life, and life of my desire, Chief good, whereto my hope doth only aspire,… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
