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“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”

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Author:Aristotle

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

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

Source: The Women of Brewster Place

“A good friend is my nearest relation.”

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Author:Thomas Fuller

“You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.”

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Book:The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero

Source: The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero

“In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.”

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Book:Works

Source: Works

“A real friend ... exults in his friends happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.”

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Author:Herodotus

“My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.”

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Author:Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!”

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Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.”

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Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.”

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Author:Amy Dickinson

“Real friendship, love, respect, and trust are all gained without a single dollar.”

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Author:Phillipe Nover

“Real Friends' are someone who are right next to you when you got in emergency, not in only parties.”

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Author:Hiroko Sakai

“People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.”

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Author:Sophie Monk

“I have a lot more real friends, than friends that I'm talking to on the Internet. That's not cool, not safe, not fun and most likely not real. Everything is just better when you're not so wrapped up in that. I just think it's lame.”

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Author:Miley Cyrus

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

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Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”

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Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“Your friend is your needs answered.”

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Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“I have this great test to see if a girl's a real friend. When we're shopping I'll pick out an outfit that I know looks hot and one that is awful. If my friend says the bad one looks good, I know she's not a good friend.”

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Author:Paris Hilton

“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.”

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Book:The One Plus One

Source: The One Plus One

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.”

“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.”

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Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.”

Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.”

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Book:Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays

Source: Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays

“Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.”

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Book:Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life

Source: Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life

“You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.”

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Book:Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence

Source: Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence

“To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.”

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Book:Journey

Source: Journey

“Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis. ... Maybe one day whites and blacks can be real friends, but right now the country ain't built that way.”

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Book:Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)

Source: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)

“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”

Source: Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini

“Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it is horrible! - that one man may own twenty millions of money, and another has to commit a crime to keep the life in his miserable body. And if I were wealthy, I'd be a spendthrift! It's the spendthrifts who are the real friends of the poor. Some of their money filters through to the very lowest classes.”

“I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.”

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Author:Abigail McCarthy

“I just feel so fortunate, A, that I'm able to talk to people and B, keep in contact with my real friends.”

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Author:Kirby Bliss Blanton

“It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. Its not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.”

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Author:Gary Ackerman

“I'm always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I'm always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren't fake friends.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.”

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Author:Bill Medley

“Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”

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Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“There will always be real friends and fake friends. It is difficult to distinguish the two because both will appear the same in the beginning but so different at the end.”

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Author:Rita Zahara

“I feel that we should always be a real friend, always, even to those who chose to be fake. Not because they are nice but because you are.”

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Author:Rita Zahara

“It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides.”

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Book:The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 2 (of 2) (Illustrations)

Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 2 (of 2) (Illustrations)

“Internet friends are real friends”

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Author:Wilson Rawls

“Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship”

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Book:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.”

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Author:Francois Fenelon

“One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend?s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.”

“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”

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Book:The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics

Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics

“I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.”

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Author:Matt Chandler

“You have to be strong. You have to know how you are, and you have to know who your partner is and you have to know who your friends, who your real friends are.”

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Author:Fergie