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• Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.

  Solon

  Praise

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• Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

  Mencius

  Best Friend, Friendship, True Friend

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Wise, Surly, Steady

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.121

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• When you look around at the six people that you spend the most time with, that's who you are. I think that in making those decisions in who you are going to be married to, who your friends are going to be, those are really huge, critical, life decisions. Who gets to talk to you everyday, is almost like the food that you eat. It is a very huge critical situation to choose who the people are that you are spending your life with, spending your time with and who you are choosing to give your love and everything to.

  Will Smith

  Love, Life, Time

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• False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Fake People

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• You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Circumstances, Ifs

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1872). “The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.163

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• We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Friendship, Thanksgiving, Thank You

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• I can trust my friends... these people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

  Cher

  Friendship, Trust, Encouragement

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and you'll have the time of your life.

  Taylor Swift

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

  Pythagoras

  Friendship, Happy Life, Journey

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• Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.

  Plutarch

  Real, Rivalry, Equal

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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• A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Friendship, Fake Friends

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

  Jacques Delille

  Life, Best Friend, Family

  "Pitié" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1895.

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• Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

  Thomas Hughes

  Friendship, Thank You, Blessed

  "George Edward Jelf: A Memoir". Book by Katherine Frances Jelf, p. 10, 1909.

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• Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Friendship, Fate, Choices

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.80, Conari Press

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• All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Adversity, World, Want

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Friendship, Good Morning

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

  Aristotle

  Life, Friendship, True Friend

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teach, My Friends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.102, The Floating Press

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• The way to gain a friend is to be one

  Jules Michelet

  Way, Gains

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• Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

  Samuel Johnson

  Failing, Manners, Chosen

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.167

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  If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

  Desmond Tutu

  Life, Friendship, Peace

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  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.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sports

  "Friendships: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases". Icon Group International, Incorporated, Page 14, November 26, 2008.

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• We must be our own before we can be another's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Soulmate, Love Yourself

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.351, Library of America

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