Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
My friendships, they are a very strong part of my life, they are as light as gossamer but also they are as strong as steel. And I cannot throw them off, nor altogether do with them or without them. And I love them at the point where they say: It is nice to see you again. And I love them too at the point when they say: Good-bye, come again soon. The rhythm of friendship is a very good rhythm.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.
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