Friendship Quotes from Famous Authors #01

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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions,
they pass no criticisms.

- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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The dearest friends are separated by impasssable gulfs.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) Essays
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; in adversity, nothing is so difficult.

- Epictetus (1st C. A.D.) Encheiridion
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One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many;
three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life,
a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918) Education of Henry Adams
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Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

- Henry George Bohn (1796 - 1884) Handbook of Proverbs
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Friendship often ends with love; but love in friendship, never.

- Charles C. Colton (1780? - 1832)
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.

- Cicero (106 - 43 B.C.) De Amicitia
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Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

- Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those
who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

- Horace (65 - 8 B.C.)
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In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

- Francois de la Rochefaucauld (1613 - 1680)
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- Edward Young
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A friend is one who dislikes the same people that you dislike.

- Unknown
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Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his
life for his friends.

- New Testament
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- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company
as to shun myself.

- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) Rasselas
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The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.

- Arthur Schnitzler (1862 - 1931)
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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

- Seneca (4? B.C. - A.D. 65)
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To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavor rather to rejoice
that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

- Seneca (4? B.C. - A.D. 65)
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God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.

- Marshal de Villars (1653 - 1734)
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There is no better-looking glass than an old friend.

- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1681) Gnomologia
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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1681) Gnomologia
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If my friends are one-eyed, I look at them in profile.

- Joseph Joubert (1754 - 1824) Pensees
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