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Friends and friendship

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

20.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

22.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

25.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Make friends before you need them

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

34.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

40.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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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 the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

46.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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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.

Capote, Truman

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark