221 Quotes by Philip Sidney

In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.

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

Thinking nurseth thinking.

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.

God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.

The first mark of valor is defence.

The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.

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.