“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
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friendship
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“Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”
“Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.”
“As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.”
“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”
“Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.”
“The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”
“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
“Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.”
“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.”
“Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.”
“Friends are born, not made.”
“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”
“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”
“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
“It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.”
“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
“Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.”
“Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.”
“That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.”
“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.”
“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.”
“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.”