Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle
10,905

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Socrates
9,396
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. -Oscar Wilde
8,544

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Dr. Thomas Fuller
7,193

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Dr. Thomas Fuller
7,127
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. -Dr. Thomas Fuller
7,106

May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.

Irish Proverb
7,060

I get by with a little help from my friends.

John Lennon
6,918
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. -George Washington
6,006

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

Lois McMaster Bujold
5,950

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington
5,948
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either. -Sophocles
5,821

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
5,759

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

M. C. Escher
5,598
We are advertis'd by our loving friends. -William Shakespeare
5,187

What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!

Saint Teresa Of Avila
5,099

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Seneca
4,343
You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. -Laurence Sterne
4,185

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

Sallust
3,985

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie
3,414
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. -Pythagoras
2,893

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert H. Humphrey
2,469

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

Epicurus
2,256
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. -Arnold H. Glasgow
2,248

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius
2,209

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Thucydides
2,082
You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks. -Eskimo Proverb
1,909

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

Randy K. Milholland
1,337

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

Cyril Connolly
1,325
Adversity does teach who your real friends are. -Lois McMaster Bujold
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