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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (SYDNEY)
English soldier, author, poet and courtier
(1554 - 1586)
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The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
      - [Forgiveness]

The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury.
      - [Valor]

The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.
      - [Sorrow]

There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.
      - [Delicacy]

There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.
      - [Rebellion]

There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.
      - [Charity]

There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.
      - [Evil]

There is nothing sooner overthrown a weak head than opinion of authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.
      - [Authority]

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

Thinking nurseth thinking.
      - [Thought]

Thou blind man's mark; thou fool's self-chosen snare,
  Fond fancy's scum, and dregs of scatter'd thoughts;
    Band of all evils; cradle of causeless care;
      Thou web of ill, whose end is never wrought;
        Desire! Desire! I have too, dearly bought
          With price of mangled mind thy worthless ware,
            Too long, too long, asleep thou hast me brought,
              Who shouldst my mind to higher things prepare.
      - [Desire]

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory end perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, of place, of ceremonial respects and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court.
      - [Ambition]

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.
      - [Endurance]

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
      - [Bravery]

Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
      - [Truth]

Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.
      - [Ungratefulness]

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
      - [Desire]

Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
      - [Valor]

Vice is but a nurse of agonies.
      - [Vice]

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
      - [Servitude]

Weigh not so much what men say, as what they prove; remembering that truth is simple and naked, and needs not invective to apparel her comeliness.
      - [Truth]

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
      - [Wisdom]

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
      - [Ancestry : Birth]

What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!
      - [Secrecy]

Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.
      - [Valor]


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