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Both in friendship and in enmity, certain boundaries must always be observed: gullibility - it should not be too great, since it immediately becomes dangerous, and hostility, which should not develop into an irreconcilable form.

Ancient human wisdom says that one should obtain money and other worldly goods solely for the purpose of helping friends in need in the future. - Karl Marx

Friends are always known not in trouble, but in happiness. Only a true friend can be happy for you when he himself is feeling bad. – Nicholas Roerich

A reliable basis for friendship is similarity in character and common interests, and not personal sympathy for a person. – Georg Hegel

Under no circumstances tell your friends about their mistakes in an indelicate manner. Otherwise, they will correct them, but they will not forget about it. – Logan Smith

Friends should not be constantly burdened with their problems, and help should only be sought as a last resort. – Georg Hegel

It's good that there are no perfect people. People without flaws are doomed to loneliness. – William Gaslitt

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At the height of greatness, do not forget that a friend is in need - Johann Schiller

He who is a good friend himself has good friends - Niccolo Machiavelli

We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals, devouring old friends; others must renew their audience to resume showing the ideal version of their lives - George Santayana

Two unfortunate people who are in friendship are like two weak trees, which, leaning on one another, can more easily resist storms and all sorts of violent winds - Kozma Prutkov

A lover has no friends - Stendhal

Friendship warms the soul, a dress warms the body, and the sun and stove warm the air - Kozma Prutkov

In nothing do I find such happiness as in a soul that preserves the memory of my good friends - William Shakespeare

Without difficulty, you can make a friend whoever you want, you just have to say something good about him when he is not present in the conversation about which there are many who want to tell him about it. The beginning of friendship is promoted by praise, the beginning of enmity is promoted by censure - Basil the Macedonian

You can complain to a stranger about what you cannot complain about to a friend, and to a friend about what you cannot complain to your wife about - Jean Rostand

He is a low soul who is ashamed of his friendship with people whose shortcomings have become known to everyone - Luc Vauvenargues

Get me out of trouble first, my friend, and then you will read the moral lesson - Jean La Fontaine

Leave three times more for your friends than for yourself. For yourself, preserve at least a grain of pristine purity of heart - Hong Zichen

A friend in power is a lost friend - Henry Adams

He who always thinks only of enemies will gain them, but will destroy friends - Milorad Pavic

It is not so difficult to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

True friends are those who have “one soul in two bodies” - Michel Montaigne

There is an old toast, remarkable in its beauty: when you climb to the top of success, may you not meet your friend - Mark Twain

Self-love is poison for friendship - Honore Balzac

I would never have become his friend if I had known him. It is very dangerous to know your own friends well - Oscar Wilde

Who will tell me the truth about me, if not a friend - Vissarion Belinsky

Friendship is one of life's greatest joys; One of the greatest joys of friendship is having someone you can trust with a secret - Alessandro Manzoni

I wish you well, that’s why I scold you - this is how true friends are always recognized! – Hans Andersen

In friendship there are neither debtors nor benefactors - Romain Rolland

The basis of friendship is the benefits that friends expect to receive from each other. Deprive them of these benefits and friendship will cease to exist - Paul Holbach

To find a friend, you need to close one eye. To keep it, you need to close both - Norman Douglas

If we want to make friends, let's do something that requires our time, energy, unselfish feelings and consideration for others - Dale Carnegie

To have many friends is to have none - Erasmus of Rotterdam

If you cannot directly, frankly, even sharply tell a friend everything that you think about him, about his actions, or hear from him the same truth about yourself, then you do not truly believe each other, do not understand and do not respect each other – Ivan Goncharov

Only he makes true friends who is his own friend - Leonid Andreev

Friend: a person who notices everything and forgives us everything - even our virtues - Adrien Decourcel

If spouses have loved each other for many years, then love imperceptibly turns into a sweet habit and ardent passion is replaced by tender friendship - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A friend is a person with whom I can be sincere. In his presence I can think out loud - Ralph Emerson

It is easier and more fun to hate your enemies than to love your friends - Bertrand Russell

There are people to whom we forgive, and there are people to whom we do not forgive. Those to whom we do not forgive are our friends - Henri Monterlant

No matter how rare true love, true friendship is even rarer - Francois La Rochefoucauld

Friendship sees everything and pays no attention to anything. Love pays attention to everything and sees nothing - Don Aminado

Must keep the secrets of your friends. He who does not keep a secret dishonors his conscience and disgraces his trust - John of Damascus

Language is the best mediator for establishing friendship and harmony - Erasmus of Rotterdam

They talk a lot about how fickle women are in love, but not enough about how constant they are in friendship - Gaston Levis

If a person has a devoted friend, he has, as it were, two lives to fulfill his desires - Francis Bacon

They punish enemies with the sword, but captivate friends with their souls - Denis Davydov

Fit in good friends little, and for those who do not know how to select, even less - Baltasar Gracian y Morales

The hearts of our friends are often more impenetrable than the hearts of our enemies - Paul Valéry

People usually call friendship spending time together, mutual assistance in business, exchange of services, in a word, such relationships where selfishness hopes to gain something - Francois La Rochefoucauld

It is more profitable to have someone among your enemies than among your friends - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The only way to find a friend is to be one - Ralph Emerson

No matter how demanding people are in love, they still forgive more offenses to those they love than to those with whom they are friends - Jean La Bruyère

Friendly frankness is especially dangerous: if you told your secrets to another - you became his slave... So, don’t listen to secrets and don’t tell them yourself - Baltasar Gracian y Morales

The greatest pleasure one can feel fair man, is to give pleasure to your friends - Voltaire

Sometimes, to lose a friend, an unpaid service is enough: unable to repay the debt, he moves away - the debtor has become an enemy - Baltasar Gracian y Morales

The one who forgets a friend in wealth is mad - Gregory the Theologian

Never boast about your friends' judgment. True is the testimony that is uttered by a hostile voice - Jerome of Stridon

If you can't love, stay friends! – Mikhail Zhvanetsky

Egoists are our only friends with whom we are friends disinterestedly - Henri Monterlant

All I need is a room to put my hat and a few friends - Dorothy Parker

Time strengthens friendship, but weakens love - Jean La Bruyère

Cheating on a friend is much more painful than cheating on a loved one, because you expect it less from him - Etienne Rey

You don’t have to be a dog to be a friend - Mikhail Zadornov

Friends love you for who you are; your wife loves you and wants to make you a different person - Gilbert Chesterton

He who has never sought friendship or love is a thousand times poorer than he who has lost them both - Jean Paul

There is little friendship in the world - and least among equals - Francis Bacon

Friends are not always friends - Mikhail Lermontov

Having borrowed five pounds from a friend and not being able to pay, I thereby sell it for five pounds, and this is unprofitable - George Shaw

A truly kind and amiable person can have as many friends as he wants, but not always the ones he wants - Maria-Ebner Eschenbach

It is easy to call a man wise, but it is much more difficult to convince his friends of this - Mark Twain

Never make friends with a person you cannot respect - Charles Darwin

Everyone wants to have a friend, but no one wants to be a friend - Jean Carr

You have found yourself a devoted friend if, having risen, he has not become acquainted with you - Jean La Bruyère

Love can be unrequited. Friendship - never. Love is filled with pride, selfishness, greed, and ingratitude. She does not recognize merit and does not hand out diplomas. Moreover, friendship is extremely rarely the end of love - Janusz Wisniewski

My fame enraged my enemies and annoyed my friends - Sarah Bernhardt

When there are no friends, a birthday is celebrated in a nightclub - Frederic Beigbeder

A true friend is with you when you are wrong. When you are right, everyone will be with you - Mark Twain

Friendship is the haven to which a person strives, it brings joy and peace of mind, it is relaxation in this life and the beginning of heavenly life - Torquato Tasso

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend - William Blake

Old acquaintances and old friendships appear only in youth - Vladislav Grzegorczyk

Do not entrust your secret to someone who treats you before you know his loyalty and friendship - John of Damascus

Success makes few friends - Luc Vauvenargues

Nature teaches animals to know their friends - William Shakespeare

Discussing the foibles and quirks of our mutual friends is a great pleasure and the cement of friendship - William Gaslitt

We consider the one who allowed his friend Denis Diderot to be insulted in his presence as a coward.

Without friendship, no relationship between people has value - Socrates

The friend I love best is for his faults, which can be discussed - William Gaslitt

It is a misfortune to have no friend, but he who has no friend makes no enemy - George Halifax

In order to live long, buy yourself old wine and an old friend - Pythagoras

We readily forgive our friends for shortcomings that do not affect us - Francois La Rochefoucauld

If your friends start complimenting you on how young you look, you can be sure they think you're getting old - Washington Irving

Friend: a person who knows everything about us and yet loves us - Elbert Hubbard

How sweet are criticisms coming from friendly lips; you believe in them, they make you sad, because there is no doubt that they are correct, but they do not cause pain - Honore Balzac

In relations with friends, advise them to do only what they are capable of doing, and lead them to goodness without violating decency, but do not try to act where there is no hope of success. Don't put yourself in a humiliating position - Confucius

Friendship usually serves as a transition from simple acquaintance to enmity - Vasily Klyuchevsky

There are no friends in politics or in cards - Finley Dunn

Those with whom we shared joys are remembered with pleasure; those with whom we have endured hardships with tenderness - Samuel Johnson

IN public relations Avoid making enemies out of friends; try, on the contrary, to turn your enemies into friends - Pythagoras

Perhaps, in order to fully appreciate friendship, you must first experience love - Nicola Chamfort

To die for a friend under some exceptional circumstances is less sublime than to daily and secretly sacrifice oneself for him - Stendhal

To write about your friend is to quarrel with him forever - Jules Renard

Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow money from, but not well enough to lend to him - Ambrose Bierce

When your friends start complimenting you on how great you look, it's a sure sign that you're getting old - Mark Twain

We prefer an open enemy to a false friend - Friedrich Engels

True friendship knows no envy, but real love- coquetry – Francois La Rochefoucauld

Friends have everything in common, and friendship is equality - Pythagoras

Friendship, which is given for money, and not acquired by the greatness and nobility of the soul, can be bought, but cannot be kept - Niccolo Machiavelli

By not allowing our friends to look into the very depths of our hearts, we do this not so much out of mistrust of them, but out of mistrust of ourselves - Francois La Rochefoucauld

In friendship there are no calculations or considerations other than itself - Michel Montaigne

Good done by an enemy is just as difficult to forget as it is difficult to remember good done by a friend. For good we pay good only to the enemy; We take revenge for evil on both the enemy and the friend - Vasily Klyuchevsky

I have three kinds of friends: friends who love me, friends who don't care about me at all, and friends who can't stand me - Nicola Chamfort

Many of our misfortunes would be easier to bear than the consolations of our friends - Charles Colton

If a man does not make new acquaintances in his life's journey, he soon finds himself alone - Samuel Johnson

Service and friendship are two parallel lines: they do not converge - Alexander Suvorov

Beware of a woman who has many girlfriends, because they will constantly seek to destroy your marriage union, your “we”. However, one friend is even worse: in the future she may become your wife - Cyril Connolly

There are very few sincere friends, and there is little demand for them - Maria-Ebner Eschenbach

Choose your enemies carefully. But also friends, because they will become enemies - Henri Monterlant

All the troubles that your worst enemy can say to your face are nothing compared to what your best friends say about you behind your back - Alfred Musset

You can't go far in friendship if friends are not willing to excuse each other's minor shortcomings - Jean La Bruyère

The friendship of vicious people is unreliable; it lasts only as long as it serves mutual benefit - Oliver Goldsmith

Selfless love is more common in life than true friendship - Jean La Bruyère

Friendship is not such a pitiful flame that it can be extinguished by separation - Johann Schiller

We are not impressed by our high-ranking friends, but we hope that our other friends are impressed by them - Jean Rostand

In old age the number of friends does not increase: all losses are then irrevocable - Luc Vauvenargues

To be left without friends is the worst misfortune, next to poverty - Daniel Defoe

Friendship has changed so much that it allows for betrayal, does not require meetings, correspondence, heated conversations, and even allows for the presence of one friend - Mikhail Zhvanetsky

The greatest feat of friendship is not to show a friend our shortcomings, but to open his eyes to his own - Francois La Rochefoucauld

Friendship is not built on gifts, but on promises - Georges-Armand Masson

A generous man must have a few faults so as not to upset his friends - Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing more precious than friends; so don't lose the chance to buy them whenever you can - Francesco Guicciardini

In friendship, as in love, happiness is often brought about by what we do not know rather than by what we know - François La Rochefoucauld

Before you love your enemies, try to treat your friends a little better - Edgar Howe

The two most terrible phrases in the world are: “I need to talk to you” and “I hope we can remain friends.” The funny thing is, they always lead to the opposite result, breaking both conversation and friendship - Frederic Beigbeder

The brave are tested in times of trouble, but true friends are in trouble - John of Damascus

The deepest friendship gives rise to the bitterest enmity - Michel Montaigne

Friendship should be a strong thing, capable of surviving all changes in temperature and all the shocks of that bumpy road along which efficient and decent people make their life journey - Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

As rare as true love is, true friendship is even rarer - Francois La Rochefoucauld

The powerless enemy is ours best friend; an envious friend is the worst of our enemies - Petr Chaadaev

All the honors in this world are not worth one good friend - Voltaire

Human friendship in most cases sprouts with many prickly “ifs” and “buts” and eventually turns into ordinary friendly relationships that last only thanks to omissions - Nicola Chamfort

You recognize friends in trouble. You recognize yourself in the troubles of your friends - Alexander Kumor

A friend must take upon himself part of his friend’s sorrows - Erasmus of Rotterdam

For friendship, any burden is light. The universe is eternal, meetings with friends are brief - Nikolai Lobachevsky

Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although often neither of them admits it to himself - Mikhail Lermontov

Choose a friend for yourself; you cannot be happy alone: ​​happiness is a matter of two - Pythagoras

How few friends would remain friends if they could fully know each other's thoughts - Georg Lichtenberg

Friendship, like love, is a rose with a luxurious color, an intoxicating aroma, but also with prickly thorns - Vissarion Belinsky

Friendship is a calm and quiet affection, directed and strengthened by habit, arising from long intercourse and mutual obligations - David Hume

In the world we have three kinds of friends: some love us, others hate us, others simply don’t remember - Nicola Chamfort

A true friend is the greatest of goods and at the same time the good that one least thinks about acquiring - Francois La Rochefoucauld

Meaning true friendship is that it doubles joy and halves pain - Joseph Addison

Imperfection is what we like in our friends - Philip Chesterfield

If you make new friends, don’t forget the old ones - Erasmus of Rotterdam

Friendship can do without love; love without friendship is no - Vasily Klyuchevsky

Friendship needs neither a slave nor a master. Friendship loves equality - Ivan Goncharov

Friendship is not a service, no one is grateful for it - Gavriil Derzhavin

Lend money to an enemy and you will gain a friend; lend money to a friend and you will lose him - Benjamin Franklin

We need two types of acquaintances: those to whom we can complain about life, and those to whom we can brag - Logan Smith

Love and friendship are a mutual echo: they give as much as they take - Alexander Herzen

Don't give it to everyone right hand yours; don't hug everyone; Don’t press anyone to your heart! What will remain for the most worthy and most amiable, and who will trust the signs of your friendship; who will give them the proper value if you squander them indiscriminately - Adolf Knigge

Friends help us live and prevent us from working - Tadeusz Kotarbiński

The cradle of personal success in life is maintaining the friendship, trust and respect of your next-door neighbor - Booker Washington

A true friend is known by the trouble to which he has brought us - Wieslaw Brudzinski

Friendship between women is just a non-aggression pact - Henri Monterlant

When friendship begins to weaken and cool, it always resorts to increased politeness - William Shakespeare

Friendship should be a strong thing, capable of surviving all changes in temperature and all the shocks of that bumpy road along which efficient and decent people make their life journey - Alexander Herzen

For high friendship there is one condition necessary - the ability to do without it - Ralph Emerson

There are few vices in the world that prevent a person from making many friends more than too many virtues - Nicola Chamfort

The collapse of all a person's hopes is pleasant to both his friends and foes - Francois La Rochefoucauld

Misunderstanding makes enemies out of friends - Lion Feuchtwanger

Friendship is based on mutual benefit, on community of interests; but as soon as interests collide, friendship is dissolved: look for it in the clouds - Arthur Schopenhauer

The flame of love sometimes leaves the ashes of friendship - Henri Renier

What, in essence, is wrong with the fact that my friend loves himself more than me? – Francis Bacon

Important friends are for important things... Therefore, having important friends and being able to save them is more important than having money - Baltasar Gracian y Morales

It is better to be in darkness than without a friend - John Chrysostom

In both friendship and love, sooner or later the time comes to settle scores - George Shaw

Friendship often ends in love, but love rarely ends in friendship - Charles Colton

For the wounds of love, friendly sympathy is a true balm - Thomas Reed

There are no words in the world that can express the difference between loneliness and friendship - Gilbert Chesterton

Women give to friendship only what they borrow from love - Nicola Chamfort

Friends are thieves of time - Francis Bacon

Equality of status binds hearts. But there cannot be long-term friendship between the rich and the poor due to the inequality between wealth and poverty - Miguel Saavedra

It is even more difficult to recognize talent in your friends than to recognize it in your enemies - Edmond Goncourt

You can't have too many friends - Alexandre Dumas (Father)

A dispute even between friends has in itself something rude, hostile and contrary to friendly relations - Francesco Petrarca

Help yourself and your friends will love you more - Jonathan Swift

If a man wants to be considered smarter than he really is, and a woman wants to be considered more beautiful, this delusion is beneficial for both of them and harmless for others. And I would rather make them my friends by indulging them, than my enemies by trying, and in vain, to bring them out of this error - Philip Chesterfield

A man is judged by his friends - Baltasar Gracian y Morales

Restraint in love or friendship would be a stupid whim and, moreover, an act of selfishness, killing all feeling, first in ourselves, and then in the person we love - George Sand

Of two friends, only one is a friend of the other - Jean Carr

If you want to know what someone you know thinks about you, make him angry - Oliver Holmes

Friendship and community are born among people when there is a common enemy - Percy Shelley

There cannot be long friendship, subordination, comradeship where one does not adapt to the other - Francesco Guicciardini

Listen, friend: to entertain you, I’ll tell you about my latest trouble - Karol Izhikowski

A true friend is someone who will hold your hand and feel your heart - Gabriel Marquez

Some friends are good at a distance, others close; those who are not very suitable for conversation can be excellent at correspondence. Distance smooths out flaws that are unbearable in close communication. – Baltasar Gracian y Morales

He who turns out to be a true friend is a real person, and he does not remain in debt to society - Anthony Shaftesbury

Better an enemy for nothing than a friend for money - Karol Bunsch

He who is afraid of making enemies will never make true friends - William Gaslitt

The friendship of two women is always a conspiracy against the third - Jean Carr

There are three useful friends and three harmful ones. Useful friends- this is a direct friend, a sincere friend and a friend who has heard a lot. Harmful friends are a hypocritical friend, an insincere friend and a talkative friend - Confucius

Love requires infinitely less than friendship - George Nathan

Friends cannot be impartial and are often even unfair in trying to maintain impartiality - Friedrich Goebbel

Everyone sympathizes with the misfortunes of their friends, and few rejoice in their successes - Oscar Wilde

True happiness does not consist in many friends, but in dignity and freedom of choice - Ben Johnson

A woman cannot be a good wife who is not and is not capable of being a friend to her husband - Thomas Paine

First love is so fragrant because it forgets the difference between the sexes, because it is passionate friendship - Alexander Herzen

A true friend is someone whom I would trust in everything concerning me more than myself - Michel Montaigne

What people usually call friendship is, in essence, only an alliance, the purpose of which is the mutual preservation of benefits and the exchange of good services, the most disinterested friendship is nothing more than a deal in which our pride always expects to win something - Francois La Rochefoucauld

How few friendships would survive if everyone suddenly found out what friends say behind his back, although just then they are sincere and impartial - Blaise Pascal

It is better to have a weak man as an enemy than as a friend - Henry Shaw

I enter into friendship with only very few, but I value it - Karl Marx

A friend should be like blood flowing immediately to a wound, without waiting to be attracted - Antonio Perez

When friendship suddenly arises between a dog and a cat, it is nothing other than an alliance against the cook - Stefan Zweig

The value of a fortune is learned when it is acquired, and the value of a friend is learned when it is lost - Jean San

The most beautiful girl can't give Furthermore what has; and the most devoted friend can only keep silent about what he does not know - Alfred Musset

He who wants more than one friend does not deserve one - Friedrich Goebbel

Alone a person is a weak being, in unity with others he is strong. The deep gaze of a friend, penetrating into the heart, the word of his advice, his consolation move apart and raise what is sitting low above him - Johann Herder

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend is always a brother - Benjamin Franklin

People on earth should be friends... I don’t think it’s possible to make all people love each other, but I would like to destroy hatred between people - Isaac Asimov

In conversations with each other, women imitate the spirit of comradely solidarity and that confidential frankness that they do not allow themselves with men. But behind this appearance of friendship there is so much vigilant mistrust, and how justified it is, admittedly! – Andre Maurois

A friend is a person who will not sell you for nothing - Gabriel Laub

False people are more dangerous to have as friends than as enemies - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An enemy who reveals your mistakes is much more useful than a friend who hides them - Leonardo da Vinci

A friend who is useless to his friend becomes a stranger to him - Paul Holbach

There is nothing more tender than the correspondence of friends who do not want to meet again - Marcel Proust

We are not particularly happy with our friends if they value our good qualities, allow ourselves to also notice our shortcomings - Luc Vauvenargues

The unfortunate have no friends - John Dryden

When friendship becomes love, they merge like two rivers, the larger of which swallows the smaller - Madeleine Scuderi

What is friendship? A word, an illusion that enchants us, a shadow that follows happiness and disappears in hours of unhappiness! – Oliver Goldsmith

Friendship achieves the same result as courage, but only in a more pleasant way - Francis Bacon

If a friend refuses to lend you $50, he probably knows you especially well - Lawrence Peter

There is nothing more dangerous than an ignorant friend - Jean Lafontaine

The only reward for virtue is virtue itself; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend - Ralph Emerson

Only a true friend can tolerate his friend's weaknesses - William Shakespeare

Friendship doubles joys and halves sorrows - Francis Bacon

I do not need a friend who repeats my every gesture: my shadow does this much better - Plutarch

Close communication is where the tenderest friendship and the strongest hatred originate - Antoine Rivarol

Trust is the first condition of friendship; it can be said to serve as the threshold of the temple, while the willingness to make sacrifices is the temple itself - Jean La Bruyère

The friends of this world are so afraid to part with the embrace of the world that nothing is more difficult for them than not to work - Aurelius Augustine

Only those people who know how to forgive each other's minor shortcomings can be connected by true friendship - Jean La Bruyère

The least noisy, most modest friendship is often the most useful. Therefore I would always prefer a discreet friend to an overzealous one - Joseph Addison

It is pleasant to be in the company of people when we are prompted to do so only by friendly inclination and respect; It’s painful to look for a meeting with them when you expect services from them: this means seeking friendship - Jean La Bruyère

The eyes of friendship are rarely wrong - Voltaire

If we want to destroy a state, we must begin to be friends with this state. They somehow survived the arms race with us, but no one can endure friendship - Mikhail Zadornov

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend - Henry Thoreau

Friendship is the wine of existence, love is a good glass of vodka - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Friendship is love without wings - George Byron

He who boasts that he has made many friends has never had one - Samuel Coleridge

One of the common basenesses is to blame absent friends in order to please others - Pierre Boist

Friendship is the art of distance, while love is the art of intimacy - Sigmund Graff

What is most beneficial for people to do is that which promotes friendship - Benedict Spinoza

Gentleman: a man who is friendly to those who have no friends - Elbert Hubbard

A person has friends and conscience until they are needed - Gabriel Laub

In friends we notice those shortcomings that can harm them, and in loved ones those from which we ourselves suffer - Jean La Bruyère

He who does good to a friend does good to himself - Erasmus of Rotterdam

Hiding anything from friends is dangerous; but it’s even more dangerous not to hide anything from them - Jean La Fontaine

Sincerity in relationships, truth in communication - this is friendship - Alexander Suvorov

My friend is the one to whom I can tell everything - Vissarion Belinsky

Unfaithful friends are swallows that you meet only in the summer; it is a sundial, useful only as long as the sun shines - Theodor Hippel

Friendship is the wine of existence, love is a good glass of vodka.
E.D. Bulwer-Lytton

Friendship is the haven to which a person strives; it brings joy and peace of mind, it is relaxation in this life and the beginning of heavenly life.
T. Tasso

Friendship is the only passion that does not weaken over the years.
Marquise Dudeffant

Friendship is nothing more than unanimity in all human and divine affairs accompanied by mutual love and benevolence, compared to which I do not know what is better, except perhaps wisdom, bestowed upon man by the immortal gods.
Cicero

Friendship is a reflection of a person's personal dignity on other people.
R. Emerson

Friendship is a ship that can carry two in good weather, but only one in bad weather.
A. Beers

Friendship can do without love; love without friendship is not.
V. Klyuchevsky

Friendship, like love, is a rose with a luxurious color, an intoxicating aroma, but also with prickly thorns.
V. Belinsky

Friendship is when you can suddenly come to a person and live with him.
David Samoilov

Friendship is one of the highest decorations of human life. Its beneficial influence on a person is like love.
G. Markov

Friendship is, first of all, sincerity, it is criticism of a friend’s mistakes. Friends should be the first to give harsh criticism so that the friend can correct his mistake.
N. Ostrovsky

Friendship in the highest and proper sense is nothing more than a feeling arising from mutual disposition. It appears when each of the two wants the loved one and himself to be equally prosperous.
Alkina

The friendship of two women is always a conspiracy against the third.
A. Corr

The friendship of two saints does more evil than the open enmity of ten scoundrels.
O. de Balzac

Friendship for a woman is a man who loved her and told her about it too late.
F. Croisset

Friendship between writers resembles love, if not in its ardor, then in envy.
Riga

Without friendship, no communication between people has value.
Socrates

In happiness it is easy to find a friend, but in unhappiness it is extremely difficult.
Democritus

Everything should be shared between friends.
Euripides

Friendship once smart person dearer than the friendship of all fools.
Democritus

Like-mindedness creates friendship.
Democritus

Those who love to blame others are incapable of friendship.
Democritus

Friends have everything in common, and friendship is equality.
Pythagoras of Samos

Having learned a secret from a friend, do not betray it by becoming an enemy: you will strike not the enemy, but the friendship.
Democritus

The fraternal closeness of like-minded people is stronger than any walls.
Antisthenes of Athens

One of the first duties of friendship is to anticipate the requests of friends.
Isocrates

When extending your hand to friends, do not clench your fingers into a fist.
Diogenes of Sinope

The ancient proverb is true that equality creates friendship.
Plato

Close friendship occurs among people who are similar to each other.
Plato

To gain the favor of friends, you need to value their services higher than they do themselves; on the contrary, our favors to friends should be considered less than our friends believe.
Plato

Friendship is content with what is possible without demanding what is due.
Aristotle

Friendship is not only invaluable, but also beautiful; we praise the one who loves his friends, and having many friends seems like something wonderful, and some even think that being a good man and friend - one and the same.
Aristotle

Friendship is the most necessary thing for life, since no one would wish for a life without friends, even if he had all the other benefits.
Aristotle

Enjoying communication is the main sign of friendship.
Aristotle

Many are friends for food, not friendship.
Menander

Of all the things that wisdom provides for the happiness of life, the most important is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus

There is nothing better and more pleasant in the world than friendship; excluding friendship from life is the same as depriving the world of sunlight.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

In general, friendship can only be judged in relation to people of mature age and mature souls.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

A friend is like a second “I”.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

Friendship can only be strong with maturity of mind and age.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

Friendship can only unite worthy people.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

Friendship penetrates the lives of all people, but to maintain it, sometimes you have to endure insults.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

True friendship must be frank and free from pretense and assent.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

A true friend should be our second self; he will never demand anything from a friend other than what is morally beautiful; Friendship is given to us by nature as an assistant in virtues, and not as a companion in vices.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

Everyone loves himself not in order to receive any reward for his love, but because everyone is dear to himself. If we do not apply the same to friendship, then we will never find a true friend; After all, a friend for everyone is a second person.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

How much charm our happiness would lose if no one rejoiced in it with us! How difficult it would be to bear our misfortunes without a friend who experiences them even more strongly than us.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

It is not safe to praise the object of your love to a friend - once he believes your praises, he will follow in your footsteps.
Ovid

As long as you are happy, you have many friends; when times get dark, you're left alone.
Ovid

There are many friends; friendship is only rare.
Phaedrus

The name "friend" is an everyday name, but friendly loyalty is rare.
Phaedrus

Without a comrade, no happiness brings joy.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

Why am I making a friend? To have someone to die for.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

Friendship ends where mistrust begins.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

If you want to live a serene, storm-free life,
Not knowing the sorrows of life until old age, -
Don’t look for a friend for yourself and don’t call yourself anyone’s friend:
You will taste less joy and less sorrow.
Martial Mark Valery

I don’t need a friend who, agreeing with me on everything, changes views with me, nodding his head, because a shadow does the same thing better.
Plutarch

Money can't buy you a true friend.
Unknown author

The question arises whether it is ever possible to prefer new friends to old ones.
Unknown author

Share your thoughts with a friend.
Unknown author

A friend is the greatest wealth in life.
Unknown author

A friend is known by love, character, speech, and deeds.
Unknown author

Test your friend, and love the tested.
Unknown author

You cannot offend a friend even with a joke.
Unknown author

Iron sharpens iron, and a man sharpens the glance of his friend.

He who wants to have friends must be friendly himself; and there is a friend who is more attached than a brother.
Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

Do not enter your friend’s house more often, lest he become bored with you and hate you.
Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

He who associates with the wise will be wise, but he who associates with fools will become corrupt.
Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

Sweet lips will increase friends, and a kind tongue will increase affection. Let there be many who live with you in the world, and let one in a thousand be your advisor. If you want to make a friend, make him by trial and do not soon entrust yourself to him.
Old Testament. Sirach

Do not leave an old friend, for a new one cannot compare with him; A new friend is like new wine: when it becomes old, you will drink it with pleasure.
Old Testament. Sirach

Keep your distance from your enemies and be careful with your friends. A true friend is a strong defense: whoever finds him has found a treasure. There is no price for a faithful friend and there is no measure of his kindness.
Old Testament. Sirach

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. New Testament. Gospel of John

It is better to be in darkness than without a friend.
John Chrysostom

Better to hit friends than kiss enemies.
John Chrysostom

There is no greater joy than seeing friends, no greater sorrow than separation from friends.
Rudaki

There is no stronger joy in this world than the sight of loved ones and friends. There is no more painful torment on earth than to be with glorious friends in separation.
Rudaki

“Better friend or brother?” - “A brother, when he is also a friend, is better.”
Unsur al-Maali

It is better for a man to be without a brother than without friends.
Unsur al-Maali

Do not consider the Charka's friends as friends, for they are your Charka's friends, not your friends.
Unsur al-Maali

A foolish friend will do out of friendship what a hundred reasonable enemies will not do out of enmity.
Unsur al-Maali

Wash your hands, brother, from that friend who hangs around with your enemies.
Unsur al-Maali

Everything will pass - and the seed of hope will not sprout,
Everything you have accumulated will not be lost for a penny.
If you don't share it with your friend on time -
All your property will go to the enemy.

If your friend becomes your enemy, then love him so that the tree of friendship, love and trust, which withered because it was not watered with the water of friendship and was not cared for, will bloom again.
As-Samarkandi

Sincere friendship is based on closeness of minds and secret laws, and not on visible signs.
As-Samarkandi

Do not avoid your friend because of a small joke and do not be offended, for this is a sign of stupidity.
As-Samarkandi

A friend is a mirror for a friend, there is no brighter mirror!
Auhad al-Din Anvari

To drag out your days without a friend is the worst of all troubles.
The soul that has no friend is worthy of pity.
Nizami Ganjavi

Indulge your loyal friends, do not persecute them for their actions.
How will the vessel you broke into shards give you something to drink?
Nizami Ganjavi

To a friend true friend will help, he will not be afraid of trouble.
He will give heart for heart, and love is a star on the way.
Shota Rustaveli

He who does not look for friends is his own enemy.
Shota Rustaveli

A wise friend will not abandon his friend, despite all the hardships.
Shota Rustaveli

For friend's sake, one must not be afraid of trials,
Respond with your heart to your heart and pave the way with love.
Shota Rustaveli

Abuse of friendship - This is discord with wisdom.
Shota Rustaveli

Consider a true friend to be the person who removes stones and thorns from your path.
Saadi

Your true friend, who will show you on the way
All obstacles will help you overcome them.
Be careful not to classify flatterers as friends.
Your true friend is the one who is honest and straightforward.
Saadi

Attract friends to you through good deeds. This is the meaning of true friendship.
Abul Faraj

But you differentiate between the shell and the kernel. Introducing yourself as a friend is not that tricky.
Khisrav Dehlavi

How does a saint live who has not known friendship?
He is like an empty pearl oyster.
Alisher Navoi

Traveler, if you are walking the right path,
A faithful friend will help you along the way.
Muhammad Fuzuli

A comrade is a support in trouble, a doctor in illness, he is the one who sacrifices himself in a moment of mortal danger.
Sulkhan Orbeliani

A comrade is a high wall, an indestructible stronghold, a fortress reliably supplied with water.
Sulkhan Orbeliani

Don’t be cheeky with your friends, otherwise your friends will be nothing but nonentities.
Hong Zichen

Friendship, which is given for money, and not acquired by the greatness and nobility of the soul, can be bought, but cannot be kept.
Niccolo Machiavelli

He who is a good friend himself has good friends.
Niccolo Machiavelli

A friend should take on part of the friend's grief.
Erasmus of Rotterdam

If you make new friends, don't forget about the old ones.
Erasmus of Rotterdam

Having many friends means having none.
Erasmus of Rotterdam

No worldly blessings will be pleasant to us if we use them alone, without sharing them with friends.
Erasmus of Rotterdam

There cannot be long friendship, subordination, comradeship where one does not adapt to the other.
Francesco Guicciardini

There is nothing more precious than friends; therefore, do not lose the opportunity to acquire them whenever you can.
Francesco Guicciardini

A friend should be like blood flowing immediately to a wound, without waiting to be attracted.
Antonio Perez

In friendship there are no calculations or considerations other than itself.
Michel de Montaigne

True friends are those who have “one soul in two bodies.”
Michel de Montaigne

A true friend is someone whom I would trust in everything concerning me more than myself.
Michel de Montaigne

The deepest friendship gives rise to the most bitter enmity.
Michel de Montaigne

The point is not who you were born from, but who you hang out with.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Remember, friend: it is more difficult to find a Friend than a girlfriend.
Lope de Vega

A friend should bear with his friend's shortcomings.
William Shakespeare

A true friend everywhere
Faithful, in good times and in bad times;
Your sadness worries him,
You're not sleeping - he can't sleep,
And in everything, without further words,
He is ready to help you.
Yes, the actions are different
A loyal friend and a worthless flatterer.
William Shakespeare

Friendship is not cemented by intelligence; it is easily torn apart by stupidity.
William Shakespeare

Only a true friend can tolerate his friend's weaknesses.
William Shakespeare

There is little friendship in the world - and least of all among equals.
Francis Bacon

Friendship achieves the same result as courage, but only in a more pleasant way.
Francis Bacon

Friendship doubles joys and cuts sorrows in half.
Francis Bacon

Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon

If a person has a devoted friend, he has, as it were, two lives.
nor to fulfill your desires.
Francis Bacon

What, in essence, is wrong with the fact that my friend loves himself more than me?
Francis Bacon

Important friends are for important things... Therefore, having important friends and being able to save them is more important than having money.
Baltasar Gracian y Morales

There is no more depressing desert than life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and alleviates troubles; the joy of the soul, it is the only cure for hostile fate.
Baltasar Gracian y Morales

A man is judged by his friends.
Baltasar Gracian y Morales

When we lose a true friend, Nothing can heal mental illness.
Pierre Corneille

There is nothing more dangerous than an ignorant friend.
Jean de Lafontaine

When friendship becomes love, they merge like two rivers, the larger of which absorbs the smaller.
Madeleine de Scudery

If a friend reproaches you for some shortcoming, always think that he has not told you everything.
Thomas Fuller

Having been deceived by friends, we can indifferently accept the manifestations of their friendship, but we must sympathize with them in their misfortunes.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In friendship, as in love, what we don’t know more often brings happiness than what we know.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As rare as true love is, true friendship is even rarer.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The greatest feat of friendship is not to show a friend our shortcomings, but to open his eyes to his own.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A true friend is the greatest of blessings and at the same time the blessing that one least thinks about acquiring.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True friendship knows no envy, and true love knows no coquetry.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Not noticing people's cooling means valuing their friendship little.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most beautiful gift given to people after wisdom is friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The inferiority of our friends gives us considerable pleasure.

True friendship matures slowly and blossoms only where people have actually proven it to each other.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Diligently avoid any friendship with fools and rogues, if the word “friendship” is even applicable in relations with such people.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

All the honors in this world are not worth one good friend.
Voltaire

The eyes of friendship are rarely wrong.
Voltaire

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend is always a brother.
Benjamin Franklin

Choose your friend slowly, and be even less in a hurry to change him.
Benjamin Franklin

Friendship is a calm and quiet affection, guided and strengthened by habit, arising from long association and mutual obligations.
David Hume

Affection can do without reciprocity, but friendship never can.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Anyone who would let a friend down for his own benefit has no right to friendship.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

My friendship is too cautious unless the danger of my friend makes me forget my own danger.
Denis Diderot

Only a friend's hand can tear the thorns out of the heart.
Claude Adrian Helvetius

...I don’t know anything equivalent to the true friendship of an intelligent person - what a rare jewel it is.
Tobias George Smollett

A friend who is useless to his friend becomes a stranger to him.
Paul Henri Holbach

The basis of friendship is the benefits that friends expect to receive from each other. Deprive them of these benefits, and friendship will cease to exist.
Paul Henri Holbach

The friendship of vicious people is unreliable; it lasts only as long as it serves for mutual benefit.
Oliver Goldsmith

What is friendship? A word, an illusion that enchants us, a shadow that follows happiness and disappears in hours of unhappiness!
Oliver Goldsmith

Fulfilling the duties of friendship is somewhat more difficult than admiring it.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

He who seeks friends deserves to find them; He who has no friends has never looked for them.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It is more difficult to fulfill the duties of friendship than to be delighted with them.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A true gentleman is never a warm friend.
Edmund Burke

Perhaps, in order to fully appreciate friendship, one must first experience love.
Nicola Sebastian Chamfort

We have three kinds of friends in the world: some love us, others hate us, and others simply don’t remember us.
Nicola Sebastian Chamfort

Human friendship in most cases sprouts with many prickly “ifs” and “buts” and eventually turns into ordinary friendly relationships that last only thanks to omissions.
Nicola Sebastian Chamfort

Unfaithful friends are swallows that you meet only in the summer; it is a sundial, useful only as long as the sun shines.
Theodor Gottlieb Hippel

Our strength lies in strong friendship,
Glory and praise to friendship.
Robert Berne

Friendship is love without wings.
George Noel Gordon Byron

It is not so difficult to die for a friend as to find a friend who would be worth dying for.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Never make friends with a person you cannot respect.
Charles Darwin

He who boasts that he has made many friends has never had a single friend.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We love our friends for their flaws.
William Hazlitt

Friendship and community are born among people when there is a common enemy.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Friendship between a man and a woman weakens greatly when night falls.
Otto von Schönhausen Bismarck

Friendship is based on the similarity of characters and interests in a common joint endeavor, and not on the pleasure that you receive from the personality of the other.

In relation to your friends you need to be as little burdensome as possible. The most delicate thing is not to demand any favors from your friends.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In the bustle of this world, friendship is the only thing that matters in personal life...
Karl Marx

...What happiness is friendship like the one that exists between us. You know that I don’t value any relationship so highly.
Karl Marx

I enter into friendship with only very few, but I value it.
Karl Marx

Friendship is not such a pathetic flame that it can go out in separation.
Johann Friedrich Schiller

True friendship is truthful and courageous.
Johann Friedrich Schiller

Friendship is based on mutual benefit, on community of interests; but as soon as interests collide, friendship is dissolved: look for it in the clouds.
Arthur Schopenhauer

True friendship is one of those things that, like giant sea serpents, we don't know whether they're fictional or whether they exist somewhere.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Don't tell your friend what your enemy shouldn't know.
Arthur Schopenhauer

For friendship, any burden is light. The universe is eternal, meetings with friends are brief.
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky

The happiness that has never deceived me is your friendship. Of all my passions, the only one that has remained unchanged is my friendship for you, for my friendship is a passion.
Nikolai Platonovich Ogarev

A friendship that cannot withstand the touch of naked truth is not worth regretting. That's where she goes.
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev

Friendship warms the soul, a dress warms the body, and the sun and stove warm the air.
Kozma Prutkov

Hiding the truth from your friends, to whom will you open up?
Kozma Prutkov

Everyone in the world has enemies, But save us from friends, God!

No muses, no labors, no joys of leisure,
Nothing can replace your only friend.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

We are similar in heart; he's definitely different from me:
I share grief with him, he shares joy with me.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

Be sincere with your friends, moderate in your needs and selfless in your actions.
Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov

Sincerity in relationships, truth in communication - this is friendship.
Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov

Do not keep the alabaster vessels of your love and affection sealed until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness while they are still alive. Speak words of comfort to them while their ears can still hear the words and while their hearts can still be moved by your speech.
Henry Ward Beecher

For high friendship, one condition is necessary - the ability to do without it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a person with whom I can be sincere. In his presence I can think out loud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to find a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't have too many friends.
Alexandre Dumas (father)

If my friends are crooked, I look at them in profile.
Joseph Joubert

Everyone wants to have a friend, but no one wants to be a friend.
Alphonse Jean Carr

The only sincere and lasting friendship is that which exists between a man and a woman, because it is the only affection free from all rivalry.
Auguste Comte

Do not try to embellish yourself for a friend: for you must be an arrow and a striving for the Superman for him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

But if you have a suffering friend, become a place of rest for his suffering, but at the same time a hard bed, a camp bed: this is how you can best help him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Have you become clean air, bread and medicine for your friend? Another is unable to free himself from his own chains, but he saves his friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche

They say that friends are known in misfortune, but in my opinion, they are also known in happiness.
Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov

The highest honor that my friends can give me is to follow my teaching in their lives, or to fight against it to the end if they do not believe in it.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Nothing can inspire and help people like friendship.
Ba Jin

Friendship is a delicate flower. One careless touch and the flower withers.
Sun Li

A bad friend is like a shadow: run on a sunny day and you won’t run away; on a cloudy day, look and you won’t find him.
Abay Kunanbaev

You can never do too much for a loyal friend.
Henrik Ibsen

Don't judge a person just by his friends. Remember that Judas had perfect friends.
Ernest Hemingway

It's hard without a friend when he's lost. But it is also difficult with a friend when he is not faithful.
Aibek

Although women attach great importance to friendship, they forget about it; men are distrustful of her, and lovers are jealous.
Paul Charles Joseph Bourget

I withdrew from the world not because I had enemies, but because I had friends. Not because they harmed me, as is usually the case, but because they considered me better than I am. I couldn't stand this lie.
Albert Camus

It is wise to water the wheel of friendship with the oil of polite politeness.
Gabrielle Sidonie Colette

True friendship is precisely a chosen kinship.
Ernest Wilfried Aeguwe

Friends do not wish us misfortune, but they find that we are “already happy.”
Auy Legendre

Companionship and friendship are signs of real reconciliation with one's gender role and real balance between the sexes.
Alfred Adler

A rich man has companions and hangers-on, a powerful man has courtiers, a man of action has comrades, and they are also his friends.
Andre Maurois

Less exalted, less selfish than love, friendship, alien to any harshness, occupies the hours that are not occupied by the latter. Friendship is a true, reliable refuge from the suffering caused by love.
Marcel Prevost

A friend is someone who, whenever you need him, knows about it.
Jules Renard

In friendship there are neither debtors nor benefactors.
Romain Rouyan

Friends exist to help each other.
Romain Rolland

Among friends, misunderstandings are never serious until a third party comes between them.
Romain Rolland

Comrades are only those who, holding on to one rope, climb a mountain peak with common efforts and in this find their closeness.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Giving, taking, sharing secrets, asking questions, giving treats, accepting treats - these are the six signs of friendship.

"Dhammapada"

People on earth should be friends... I don’t think it’s possible to make all people love each other, but I would like to destroy hatred between people.

Isaac Asimov

Sincerity of relationships, truth in communication - this is friendship.

Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov

Each of our friends is a whole world for us, a world that might not have been born and which was born only thanks to our meeting with this person.

Anais Nin

A friend is one soul living in two bodies.

Aristotle

Friendship is content with what is possible without demanding what is due.

Aristotle

Choose your friend slowly, and be even less in a hurry to change him.

Benjamin Franklin

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend is always a brother.

Benjamin Franklin

He who wants to have a friend without faults remains without friends.

Bias

Friendship multiplies joys and crushes sorrows.

Henry George Bon

Like-mindedness creates friendship.

Democritus

Those who illuminate the lives of others will not be left without light themselves.

James Matthew Barry

When you light other people’s candles from your lamp, you do not lose a single particle of flame.

Jane Porter

Happiness is incomplete until you share it with others.

Jane Porter

The meaning of true friendship is that it doubles joy and halves suffering.

Joseph Addison

True friendship is a slow-growing plant, which must be experienced in trouble and misfortune before it deserves the name.

George Washington

Anyone looking for an ideal friend will be left without friends.

The one who has never sought either friendship or love is a thousand times poorer than the one who has lost both of them.

Jean Paul

Know how to be a friend - you will find a friend.

Ignatius Krasitsky

Do not rudely break the thread of friendship, because if you have to tie it again, a knot will remain.

Indian proverb

Truly, there is nothing better in life than the help of a friend and mutual joy.

John of Damascus

Friendship is not such a pathetic flame that it can go out in separation.

Johann Friedrich Schiller

True friendship is truthful and courageous.

Johann Friedrich Schiller

Only a friend's hand can tear the thorns out of the heart.

Claude Adrian Helvetius

In the edifice of human happiness, friendship builds the walls, and love forms the dome.

Kozma Prutkov

He who is humane gives others support, wanting to have it himself, and helps them achieve success, wanting to achieve it himself.

Confucius

When mistrust arises, friendship disappears.

Labuis

This is what I liked about Hekaton today: “You ask, what have I achieved? I became my own friend!” He has achieved a lot, because now he will never be alone. And know: such a person will be a friend to everyone.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)

We should always have a friend in our soul, and our soul should always be with us: it can see whoever it wants every day.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)

Friendship ends where mistrust begins.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)

Having made friends, trust, judge before you become friends.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)

People are born to help each other, just as a hand helps an arm, a foot helps a leg, and the upper jaw helps the lower.

Marcus Aurelius

The surest way to achieve happiness for yourself is to seek it for others.

Martin Luther

Let people see the kindness shining in your face, in your eyes and in your friendly greeting. Let us all be one heart, one love.

Mother Teresa

In friendship there are no other calculations or considerations other than itself.

Michel de Montaigne

A true friend is someone whom I would trust in everything concerning me more than myself.

Michel de Montaigne

There seems to be nothing to which nature would push us more than friendly communication.

Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is more an expression of our free will than affection and friendship.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no asceticism equal to patience, no happiness equal to contentment, no gift equal to friendship, no virtue equal to compassion.

Wisdom of Ancient India

He who is a good friend himself has many good friends.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Look at whether you love others, and not at whether others love you.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

Two people can save each other where one dies.

Honore de Balzac

Friendship is like a treasury: you cannot get out of it more than you put into it.

Osip Mandelstam

In trouble you know a friend.

Petronius Arbiter Gaius

In order to live long, save for yourself old wine and an old friend.

Pythagoras

Live with people so that your friends do not become enemies, and your enemies become friends.

Pythagoras

By trying for the happiness of others, we find our own.

Close friendship occurs among people who are similar to each other.

The only way to have a friend is to be one yourself.

A person needs another person.

Food and friendship are the small miracles that love can accomplish.

Rita Schiavone

To be friends is to love rather than to be loved.

Robert Bridges

Friendship is brotherhood, and in its most sublime meaning it is its most beautiful ideal.

Silvio Pellico

The eyes of friendship are rarely wrong.

Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire

Miracles are beautiful, and to console a brother, to help a friend rise from the depths of suffering, to forgive an enemy for his errors—these are the greatest miracles in the world.

Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire

Anyone who refuses to forgive another, as it were, destroys the bridge over which he himself will have to cross, for every person needs forgiveness.

Edward Herbert

Of all the things that wisdom gives you for the happiness of your whole life, the most important is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

In all possible ways and ways, nature teaches people consent. Not content with expressing mutual affection in words, she made the community not just pleasant, but also necessary.

Erasmus of Rotterdam

A friend should take on part of the friend's grief.

Erasmus of Rotterdam

We truly live only when we give ourselves to others.

Ethel Percy Andrews

As rare as true love is, true friendship is even rarer.

Francois La Rochefoucauld

For high friendship, one condition is necessary - the ability to do without it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyone who would let a friend down for his own benefit has no right to friendship.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Friendship usually serves as a transition from simple acquaintance to enmity.

Vasily Klyuchevsky

How few friendships would survive if everyone suddenly found out what his friends were saying behind his back, although just then they were sincere and impartial.

Blaise Pascal

A friendship that ended never actually began.

Publius Syrus

Friendship is such a sacred, sweet, lasting and permanent feeling that you can keep it for life, unless, of course, you try to borrow money.

Mark Twain

Love can be unrequited. Friendship - never.

Janusz Wisniewski

In the bustle of this world, friendship is the only thing that matters in personal life.

Karl Marx

Friendship is not such a pathetic flame that it can go out in separation.

Johann Schiller

Enjoying communication is the main sign of friendship.

Aristotle

Friendship can only be strong with maturity of mind and age.

Cicero

There is little friendship in the world - and least of all among equals.

Francis Bacon

True friendship matures slowly and blossoms only where people have actually proven it to each other.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

The basis of friendship is the benefits that friends expect to receive from each other. Deprive them of these benefits - and friendship will cease to exist

Paul Henri Holbach

Friendship is based on the similarity of characters and interests in a common joint endeavor, and not on the pleasure that you receive from the personality of the other.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

What is friendship? A word, an illusion that enchants us, a shadow that follows happiness and disappears in hours of unhappiness!

Oliver Goldsmith

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Friendship and community are born among people when there is a common enemy.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fulfilling the duties of friendship is somewhat more difficult than admiring it.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The only sincere and lasting friendship is that which exists between a man and a woman, because it is the only affection free from all rivalry.

Auguste Comte

Quotes about friends

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Henry Ford

When extending your hand to friends, do not clench your fingers into a fist.

Diogenes

The Lord has given us relatives, but we, thank God, are free to choose our own friends.

Ethel Mumford

Over the course of my life, I have become convinced that conversations with friends take up time the most and most imperceptibly: friends are great robbers of time.

Francesco Petrarca

Don’t rush to choose friends, and even less so to change them.

Benjamin Franklin

There are people to whom we forgive, and there are people to whom we do not forgive. Those whom we do not forgive are our friends.

Henri Montherlant

But you differentiate between the shell and the kernel. Introducing yourself as a friend is not that tricky.

Khisrav Dehlavi

You can never do too much for a loyal friend.

Henrik Ibsen

It is not so difficult to die for a friend as to find a friend who would be worth dying for.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A true friend is a person who will tell you everything he thinks about you and tell everyone that you are a wonderful person.

Omar Khayyam

Where real friends are, friendship is not visible.

Konstantin Simonov

Treat your friends as if they were your enemies.

Publius Syrus

Having many friends means having none.

Erasmus of Rotterdam

True friends are those who have “one soul in two bodies.”

Michel de Montaigne

The point is not who you were born from, but who you hang out with.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Important friends are for important things... Therefore, having important friends and being able to save them is more important than having money.

Baltasar Gracian y Morales

Don't tell your friend what your enemy shouldn't know.

Arthur Schopenhauer

When we lose a true friend, Nothing can heal mental illness.

Pierre Corneille

A friend who is useless to his friend becomes a stranger to him.

Paul Henri Holbach

Everyone in the world has enemies, But save us from friends, God!

Alexander Pushkin

QUOTES ABOUT FRIENDS

There is no greater sweetness for a woman than to sympathize with her beloved friend.

Yuri Trifonov

I’m not strong, she’s not strong, but together with my friend we are stronger than anyone in the world.

Linda McFarlane

Friendship between women is just a non-aggression pact.

Henri Montherlant

I have girlfriends, but I prefer to be friends with men. Don't trust women. The spirit of competition between women is ineradicable.

Mary Wilson Little

She is my best friend. She thinks I'm slim and I think she's a natural blonde.

Carrie Snow

If your husband ran off with your best friend, you will miss her very much.

Murphy's Laws

Friendship is impossible between two women, one of whom dresses very well.

Laurie Colvin

When I was a girl, I only had two girlfriends, and only imaginary ones. And they only played with each other.

Rit Rudner

Yes, I have several real friends, but we don’t really like each other.

Yanina Ipohorskaya

She's like that good friend that she would throw all her friends into the water in order to have the pleasure of getting them out of there.

Anna Stahl

Women for the most part are so indifferent to friendship because it seems insipid to them in comparison with love.

Francois La Rochefoucauld

Women don't count their years. Their friends do it for them.

Yuzef Bulatovich

The friendship of two women is always a conspiracy against the third.

Alphonse Carr

The loneliest woman in the world is the woman who has no close friend.

George Santayana

Scold your friends privately, but praise them publicly.

Solon

It has long been known: nothing makes a young girl look better and raises her self-esteem than having a friend.

Victoria Platova

Women friends kiss each other when they meet because they cannot bite.

Magdalena the Impostor

In your friend you discover yourself.

Isabel Norton

A good friend can tell you the truth. True, in a minute she will cease to be the best...

Arthur Brisbane

Mothers confess and are frank with their friends.

Jeanne Marie Rolland