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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Norman Vincent Peale
AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century
5.0 · 34 votes · 13 reads
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Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Anonymous
4.0 · 48 votes · 94 reads
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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.
Anonymous
4.9 · 60 votes · 115 reads
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Thomas Paine
EducatorEnglish1737 · 18th century
3.7 · 47 votes · 172 reads
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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold - it can only be cherished.
Anonymous
3.6 · 25 votes · 82 reads
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
PoetBritish1772 · 18th century
3.3 · 27 votes · 116 reads
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century
3.5 · 6 votes · 1 reads
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Hobbes
PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century
4.8 · 20 votes · 17 reads
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Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
3.6 · 8 votes · 90 reads
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle
PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC
3.3 · 35 votes · 81 reads
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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.
Anonymous
3.2 · 5 votes · 72 reads
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Beckett
WriterIrish1906 · 20th century
3.7 · 64 votes · 160 reads
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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements
Anonymous
3.8 · 5 votes · 54 reads
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Friendship is love with understanding.
Anonymous
5.0 · 52 votes · 129 reads
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
3.2 · 45 votes · 100 reads
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century
4.4 · 32 votes · 107 reads
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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Marcus Tulius Cicero
PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC
4.6 · 18 votes · 33 reads
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine
PoetFrench1621 · 17th century
3.8 · 15 votes · 9 reads
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century
3.4 · 11 votes · 153 reads
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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.
Marcus Tulius Cicero
PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC
4.5 · 26 votes · 185 reads
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracián
WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century
4.5 · 55 votes · 107 reads
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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.
Anonymous
4.9 · 43 votes · 141 reads
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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
Susan Sontag
AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century
3.1 · 23 votes · 17 reads
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Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century
5.0 · 54 votes · 132 reads
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton
AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century
3.8 · 22 votes · 99 reads
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Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
George Eliot
WriterBritish1819 · 19th century
4.4 · 62 votes · 39 reads
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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.
Anonymous
3.4 · 49 votes · 5 reads
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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Joseph Addison
PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century
4.2 · 37 votes · 183 reads
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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
3.4 · 62 votes · 183 reads
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Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Franz Schubert
MusicianAustrian1797 · 18th century
5.0 · 32 votes · 134 reads
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
Baltasar Gracián
WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century
4.8 · 42 votes · 120 reads
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Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius
PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC
4.4 · 38 votes · 158 reads
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He makes no friends who never made a foe.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
PoetBritish1809 · 19th century
3.3 · 64 votes · 195 reads
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
3.0 · 49 votes · 87 reads
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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
Joseph Joubert
French1754 · 18th century
4.0 · 46 votes · 40 reads
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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.
Anonymous
3.3 · 60 votes · 130 reads
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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.
Anonymous
4.6 · 16 votes · 169 reads
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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
Eric Hoffer
AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century
4.6 · 18 votes · 40 reads
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
François de La Rochefoucauld
WriterFrench1613 · 17th century
4.1 · 8 votes · 132 reads
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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by th
William Hazlitt
EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century
4.3 · 34 votes · 1 reads
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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield
WriterEnglish1888 · 19th century
4.7 · 34 votes · 54 reads
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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive li
William Wordsworth
PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century
4.7 · 11 votes · 77 reads
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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln
PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century
4.0 · 31 votes · 180 reads
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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
4.0 · 42 votes · 109 reads
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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Peter F. Drucker
WriterAmerican1909 · 20th century
3.7 · 9 votes · 76 reads
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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
4.9 · 56 votes · 75 reads
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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.
Abraham Lincoln
PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century
4.6 · 36 votes · 153 reads
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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
Euripides
PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC
3.6 · 46 votes · 133 reads
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I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each o
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
3.3 · 56 votes · 165 reads
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I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
3.5 · 41 votes · 125 reads
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I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.
Aristotle Onassis
BusinessmanGreek1906 · 20th century
4.3 · 9 votes · 43 reads
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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
PoetFrench1636 · 17th century
4.4 · 63 votes · 35 reads
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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
William Faulkner
WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century
5.0 · 34 votes · 165 reads
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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Samuel Johnson
AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century
4.1 · 32 votes · 1 reads
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Rudyard Kipling
WriterBritish1865 · 19th century
3.6 · 25 votes · 77 reads
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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses
Katherine Mansfield
WriterEnglish1888 · 19th century
4.4 · 11 votes · 190 reads
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century
4.5 · 32 votes · 165 reads
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
Montaigne
PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century
5.0 · 17 votes · 57 reads
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
Rudyard Kipling
WriterBritish1865 · 19th century
3.0 · 23 votes · 129 reads
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
PoetEnglish1816 · 19th century
4.5 · 39 votes · 152 reads
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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Thomas de Quincey
AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century
4.3 · 18 votes · 145 reads
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
4.3 · 17 votes · 45 reads
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle
PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC
5.0 · 64 votes · 91 reads
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
François de La Rochefoucauld
WriterFrench1613 · 17th century
4.4 · 45 votes · 147 reads
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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.
Anonymous
3.4 · 25 votes · 35 reads
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi
LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century
4.2 · 13 votes · 141 reads
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
François de La Rochefoucauld
WriterFrench1613 · 17th century
3.4 · 37 votes · 71 reads
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
4.3 · 15 votes · 110 reads
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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
Proverb
Anonymous
3.6 · 31 votes · 184 reads
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett
NovelistEnglish1867 · 19th century
3.4 · 41 votes · 198 reads
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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.
Anonymous
4.1 · 7 votes · 196 reads
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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
Henry Ward Beecher
PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century
3.1 · 64 votes · 115 reads
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
3.8 · 57 votes · 98 reads
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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it
Simone de Beauvoir
NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century
3.6 · 32 votes · 54 reads
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Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.''
Anonymous
4.5 · 13 votes · 2 reads
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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Euripides
PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC
4.8 · 64 votes · 116 reads
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Life is nothing without friendship.
Marcus Tulius Cicero
PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC
4.4 · 22 votes · 107 reads
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Anonymous
4.3 · 32 votes · 154 reads
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Bronte
PoetBritish1818 · 19th century
4.8 · 60 votes · 89 reads
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Make friends before you need them
Anonymous
4.4 · 13 votes · 117 reads
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