A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.
The road to a friend's house is never long.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
True friends stab you in the front.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
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