“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”
“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”
“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.”
“The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.”
“Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.”
“To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.”
“Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.”
“Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.”
“In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.”
“Friends, though absent, are still present.”
“We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.”
“Never injure a friend, even in jest.”
“Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.”
“Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.”
“Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.”
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