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“Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.”

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Ovid, born on March 20, 43 BC and died in 1 BC, was a renowned Roman poet of the ancient world. His works are diverse, including love poems, mythological poems, and satirical poems, with 'Metamorphoses' being his most famous work. more

“There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.”

Real Speak Forget Air Forgiving Ill Real Friends Friendship Love No Friends Acknowledgment Forgive And Forget Enclosure

Author:William Penn

“Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.”

Heart May Real Home Spirit Next Pleasure Virtue Unions Real Friends

Book:The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...

Source: The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...

“Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.”

Ifs Men Real Reason Care Virtue Exercise Sorrow Comfort Firm Gentle Generous Charming Sovereign Real Friends Fear Of Death Calamity Antidote Felicity Extremity

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.”

Heart Persons Long Real Soul Speak Given Long Time Decided Welcome Real Friends Heart And Soul Pondering

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.”

Ifs Real Matter Share Please Good Things Excellent Pleasant Real Friends Beneficial Please Me Without Friends

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.”

Real Self Connections Wicked Companion Virtuous Typical Associates Real Friends Seekers Factions Accomplices Funny Friendship Debauchery Voluptuous Idlers Courtiers

Author:Voltaire

“Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.”

Real Natural Soil Real Friends

Book:Pièces inédites de Voltaire, imprimées d'après les manuscrits originaux, pour faire suite aux différentes éditions publiées jusqu'a ce jour

Source: Pièces inédites de Voltaire, imprimées d'après les manuscrits originaux, pour faire suite aux différentes éditions publiées jusqu'a ce jour

“Keep thy friend Under thy own life's key.”

Real Keys Real Friends

Book:The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings

“A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.”

Should Real Friendship Friends Bears Real Friends Infirmity

Author:William Shakespeare

“The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.”

Real Seems Together Band Ties Real Friends Amity

Book:The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. With Glossarial Notes

Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. With Glossarial Notes

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