"A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy."
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"As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease."
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"Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities."
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"Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail."
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"The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends."
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"I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life."
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"For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God."
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