• Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.5 · 16 votes · 0 reads

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• We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

  

  Isaac Newton

  MathematicianEnglish1643 · 17th century

  3.7 · 46 votes · 90 reads

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• We die as often as we lose a friend.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.9 · 25 votes · 164 reads

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• We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.2 · 18 votes · 67 reads

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• We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  4.0 · 47 votes · 139 reads

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• 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.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.5 · 61 votes · 164 reads

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• We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 7 votes · 192 reads

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• What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.6 · 22 votes · 34 reads

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• What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.7 · 64 votes · 146 reads

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• When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 47 votes · 43 reads

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• Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

  

  Greek proverb

  Greek

  4.8 · 19 votes · 35 reads

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• Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 59 votes · 18 reads

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• Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.6 · 52 votes · 185 reads

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• With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.4 · 13 votes · 44 reads

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• Without friends no one would choose to live.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.8 · 53 votes · 121 reads

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• Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 153 reads

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• Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.8 · 17 votes · 148 reads

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• Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.2 · 18 votes · 7 reads

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• Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship. Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.7 · 59 votes · 0 reads

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• You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

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  Laurence J. Peter

  WriterCanadian1919 · 20th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 87 reads

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• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.6 · 25 votes · 78 reads

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• You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.1 · 8 votes · 96 reads

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• You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

  

  English proverb

  English

  4.7 · 25 votes · 63 reads

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• You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.3 · 38 votes · 198 reads

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• Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.2 · 38 votes · 196 reads

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