“That which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal.”
Source: The Comedies of William Shakespeare: Edited with Introductions and Notes ... by J. O. Halliwell, Esq. Reprinted from the American Edition
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“True friendship is a plant of slow growth.”
Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious
“Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.”
“We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.”
Source: Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World
“God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.”
“Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.”
“Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.”
Source: The Elements of Moral Philosophy
“How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.”
“Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.”
“Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.”
Source: The Nun's Story, Merry Christmas Mr. Baxter, The Success, The Diamond Hitch, The Sleeping Partner
“Adversity does teach who your real friends are.”
Source: A Civil Campaign
“Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.”
Source: Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts
“Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.”
Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger
Source: Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate
Source: Cicero in twenty-nine volumes
“For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.”
Source: Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream
“It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.”
Source: Ethical Writings of Cicero: Cicero De Officiis, Cicero De Senectute, Cicero De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream
Source: Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream
Source: Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream
“We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.”
“Real friends tell you the truth...even when you want them to shut up.”
“How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.”
“The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.”
Source: Keys to Success
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
Source: The ancient mariner. Christabel. Miscellaneous poems. Remorse. Zapolya