#treasure

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. ↗

— Pietro Aretino

#better #friends #friendship #granted #greater

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#down #going #into #lies #life

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#drudgery #earth #harrowing #mind #necessary

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest. ↗

— James Levine

#era #grew #i #like #orchestra

I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#happy #i #i think #now #people

Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#concern #continues #had #little #much

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. ↗

— John Milton

#covetous #covetousness #him #his #jewel

I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#back #decision #enjoyed #federal #federal judge

I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#first #first time #gone #had #how

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#being #honey #insects #knowledge #lies