Quote #1
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
More from St. Jerome
- Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
- The friendship that can cease has never been real.
- It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.
- No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
- If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
- It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.
- Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.
- While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.