“Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow”
Aesop
“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
Plutarch
“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine but leaving us when we cross into the shade.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines”
Benjamin Franklin
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman
“You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe”
Gabriela Mistral