“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.”
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“Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.”
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.”
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
“The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.”
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
Source: Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays
“I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.”
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 and Writings, by N. Rowe
“To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes: To which is Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words
“Thy friendship makes us fresh.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
Source: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark