Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
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.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
My friends are my estate.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Friendship needs no words.
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship.
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