# The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes  ## Metadata - Author: [[Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn, Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, Joh...]] - Full Title: The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes - Category: #books ## Highlights - and between us there was the most complete harmony in our tastes, our pursuits, and our sentiments, which is the true secret of friendship. ([Location 57113](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VWGHR6J&location=57113)) - For nothing is really more delightful than a return of affection, and the mutual interchange of kind feeling and good offices. ([Location 57319](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VWGHR6J&location=57319)) - And the result is, what I started by saying, that friendship is only possible between good men. ([Location 57404](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VWGHR6J&location=57404)) - For man not only loves himself, but seeks another whose spirit he may so blend with his own as almost to make one being of two. ([Location 57476](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VWGHR6J&location=57476)) - "If a man could ascend to heaven and get a clear view of the natural order of the universe, and the beauty of the heavenly bodies, that wonderful spectacle would give him small pleasure, though nothing could be conceived more delightful if he had but had some one to whom to tell what he had seen." So true it is that nature abhors isolation, and ever leans upon something as a stay and support; and this is found in its most pleasing form in our closest friend. ([Location 57510](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VWGHR6J&location=57510)) - Tags: [[blue]] - One piece of advice on parting. Make up your minds to this. Virtue (without which friendship is impossible) is first; but next to it, and to it alone, the greatest of all things is Friendship. ([Location 57600](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VWGHR6J&location=57600)) - am, besides, studying hard at Greek, and after the manner of the Pythagoreans—to keep my memory in working order—I repeat in the evening whatever I have said, heard, or done in the course of each day. ([Location 57834](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VWGHR6J&location=57834)) - Nor is it only reason and arguments that have brought me to this belief, but the great fame and authority of the most distinguished philosophers. I used to be told that Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans—almost natives of our country, who in old times had been called the Italian school of philosophers—never doubted that we had souls drafted from the universal Divine intelligence. I used besides to have pointed out to me the discourse delivered by Socrates on the last day of his life upon the immortality of the soul—Socrates who was pronounced by the oracle at Delphi to be the wisest of men. I need say no more. ([Location 58066](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VWGHR6J&location=58066)) - would have attempted such lofty deeds as to be remaindered by posterity, had they not seen in their minds that future ages concerned them. ([Location 58091](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VWGHR6J&location=58091)) - Happy in detecting a ray of the beautiful upon the humblest blade of grass gemmed with dew; happy in seizing the poetic elements of an incident the most prosaic in appearance—he was incapable of tracing all to a common source, and recomposing the grand ascending scale in which, to quote a beautiful expression of Herder's "every creature is a numerator of the grand denominator, Nature." ([Location 283622](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VWGHR6J&location=283622)) - Tags: [[pink]] - By them in all engagements the first assault is made: of them the front of the battle is always composed, as men who in their looks are singular and tremendous. For even during peace they abate nothing in the grimness and horror of their countenance. ([Location 285442](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VWGHR6J&location=285442)) - Nor in one of these nations does aught remarkable occur, only that they universally join in the worship of Herthum; that is to say, the Mother Earth. ([Location 285516](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VWGHR6J&location=285516)) - His most important point is the cause of human suffering,13 and that he finds in the craving for existence (no matter how noble that existence) and for pleasure. If you can only master these cravings, you are on the road to salvation, to Nirvana. ([Location 436061](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VWGHR6J&location=436061)) - At the same time it is the substance, and indeed we may say the entire substance, of a discourse of about four hundred Pali words attributed to Buddha.17 Of ([Location 436084](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VWGHR6J&location=436084)) - This realization made him feel that there was only one egress from the impasse, it was to reject all the help and conclusions of reason for or against, and to throw himself blindly into the arms of God, an act symbolized by his acceptance of faith and the influence of grace upon him. ([Location 436340](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07VWGHR6J&location=436340)) - Tags: [[favorite]]