Friendship quotes
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"If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance."
"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
"Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare."
"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."
"Suspicion is the cancer of friendship."
"You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours."
"Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you."
"Friendship is essentially a partnership."
"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."
"Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you."
"He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends."
"Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand."
"When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles."
"We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection."
"A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''"
"A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend."
"Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds."
"Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off."
"Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too."
