Commendation Quote by Plutarch

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate…

— Thomas Carlyle

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.

— Clarence H. Burns

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

— Samuel Johnson

No man has more than a handful of close friends. He may find some of them early in life, some later.

— Jim Nabors

Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he…

— Blaise Pascal

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the…

— William Hazlitt

I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man…

— Charles Lamb

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be…

— Samuel Johnson