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"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."
"God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other."
"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."
"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."
"The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed."
"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."
"Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food."
"For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best."
"My friend Winnie is a procrastinator. He didn't get his birth mark til he was eight years old."
"Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial."
"They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
"The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done."
"The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods."
"Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong."
"Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits."
"What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is."
"I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends."
"Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends."
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
"Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]"
