Philip Sidney Quotations | Page 2

There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.

Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.

The first mark of valor is defence.

The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.

Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.