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“Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.”

Ifs Wells May States Friendship Violence Broken Stones Let Me Metaphor Accidents Former Heat Trusted Hopelessness Flawed Restoring Coarse Vases Precious Stones

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.”

Ifs Feels Two Soul Sometimes Feelings Friendship Dear Stranger Former Indifference Thread Sometimes In Life Magnetism Antipathy Two Souls Former Life

Author:Elinor Glyn

“In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.”

Certain Friendship Dangerous Strange Bounds Former Latter Hostility Enmity Vicissitudes

Book:The Modern Chesterfield

Source: The Modern Chesterfield

“There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.”

Love Important Romance Friendship Differences Demand Opposites Delight Extremes Former Latter Love And Friendship Friend Valentine

Author:Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

“To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.”

Giving Friendship Advice Former Appropriate Latter Bitterness Irritation Giving And Receiving

Book:Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger

Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger

“Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you as he has treated them. Be slow to give your friendship, but when you have given it, strive to make it lasting; for it is as reprehensible to make many changes in one's associates as to have no friends at all. Neither test your friends to your own injury nor be willing to forego a test of your companions.”

Men Giving Used Given Friendship Willing Tests Treats Strive Treated Former Injury Companion Lasting Associates No Friends Inquiring Former Friends

Author:Isocrates

“As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.”

Men Needs Self Matter Friendship Enemy Tasks Former Latter Good Friend Preservation Ardent Self Preservation

Author:Diogenes