Philip SidneyThinkers

Absence is death, or worse, to them that love.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

Fear is the underminer of all determinations.

A Good deed is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

Happiness is certain only in this: in the action of doing good.

Hope is the fawning traitor of the mind; under color of friendship, it robs it of its chief force of resolution.

Self-confidence is the chief nurse of magnanimity.

Slander is painful — No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue.

Virtue is a friend. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.