friendship Quotes

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”

― Confucius, Analects

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“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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“Thus it will always happen that he who is not your friend will demand your neutrality, whilst he who is your friend will entreat you to declare yourself with arms.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

topic:friendship war

“Business . . . may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

topic:friendship money business

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

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“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

topic:friendship reading books

“In the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Friendship

topic:self friendship

“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.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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“There is an element in friendship which doubles its charm and renders it indissoluble—a sense of certainty which is lacking in love.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

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