A Quote by Seneca the Elder

He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.

Seneca the Elder

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Advantage Friendship Looks Nobility Out Strips

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Seneca the Elder
Roman - Writer
54 BC - 39

I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium. They're printing the comics so small that most strips are just talking heads, and if you look back at the glory days of comic strips, you can see that they were showcases for some of the best pop art ever to come out.

Matt Groening

Meanwhile, Will had begun cutting his toast into strips and was making rude pictographs out of them. Oh, that looks rather like a ...- , Jem began.

Cassandra Clare

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You think that commanding an army grants you nobility? Nobility comes from fighting besides your soldiers, not kidnapping a woman to cheat your way out of battle.

Bartolomeo d'Alviano

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

George Edward Woodberry

Think of the aged and bed-ridden Matisse cutting out strips of coloured paper, much as a child might, and investing them with a more than mortal vitality... Those strips of paper resonate because they prove that our materials don't determine in advance the worth of what we make.

Howard Jacobson

Titus looks like Tyson when he strips off in the dressing-room, except he doesn't bite and has a great tackle.

Bobby Robson

On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and this is what is decisive has never been lost, despite times of decline, so long as the Nordic blood was still alive. Heroism, in fact, took many forms, from the warrior nobility of Siegfried or Hercules to the intellectual nobility of Copernicus and Leonardo , the religious nobility of Eckehart and Lagarde, or the political nobility of Frederick the Great and Bismarck , and its substance has remained the same.

Alfred Rosenberg

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

Henri Nouwen

Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to involve people. It's a whole process. And I like that. For me, that's where the artwork is.

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

Cathy Guisewite

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

Imelda Marcos

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?

Bantu Holomisa

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

Walt Kelly

And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained by purchase and not through grandeur and nobility of spirit is merited but is not secured, and at times is not to be had.