Bonds Of Friendship Quotes - Page 2

• Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

  Charles de Lint

  Real, Book, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Believe, Men, People

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• If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Envy, Hatred

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.122, Commodius Vicus

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