The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as 35 to find a friend worth dying for. Henry Home.
The difficulty is to teach the multitude that something can be both true and untrue at the same time. Schopenhauer.
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting. Ben Jonson.
The dilettante takes the obscure for the profound, violence for vigour, the indefinite for the infinite, and the senseless for the supersensuous. Schiller.
The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. Jesus.
The discovery of what is true, and the practice 40 of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy. Voltaire.
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. Bible.
The disease of the mind leading to fatalist ruin is the concentration of man upon himself, whether his heavenly interests or his worldly interests, matters not; it is their being his own interests which makes the regard of them mortal. Ruskin.
The disease which afflicts bureaucratic governments, and which they usually die of, is routine. J. S. Mill.
The disease with which the human mind now labours is want of faith. Emerson.