“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”
More from Aldous Huxley
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
“In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never…”
“Ending is better than mending.”
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history, is the most important of all…”