In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Quotations by Aeschylus

Other quotes and quotations :

• It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Aeschylus
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. Alexander Pope
• Doris Lessing
• Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. Doris Lessing
• Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. Denis Waitley
• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend’s friend has a friend; be discreet. The Talmud
• A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. Readers Digest