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“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

“Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

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

“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.”

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

“How many films are there about friendships between teenagers? And how many projects are there dealing with friendships among adults? True friendships - really dealing with the intimacy behind what happened then, and how long you've known each other, and the wounds that haven't healed. That's what [About Alex] film is about.”

“Religion consists much in holy affection; but those exercises of affection which are most distinguishing of true religion are these practical exercises. Friendship between earthly friends consists much in affection; but those strong exercises of affection that actually carry them through fire and water for each other are the highest evidences of true friendship.”

“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”

“Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”

“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”

“Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.”

“Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”

“It costs to be a friend or to have a friend. There is nothing else in life except motherhood that costs so much. It not only costs time, affection, patience, love, but sometimes a man must even lay down his life for his friends. There is no true friendship without self-abnegation, self-sacrifice.”

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”

“Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”

“You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”

“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”