"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
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"May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies."
"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
"I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me."
"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
"I get by with a little help from my friends."
"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."
"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."
"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes."
"So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem."
"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune."
"True friends stab you in the front."
"You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down."