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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

1932

★ 1.0

Personal journal

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

1864

★ 1.1

Philosophical literature

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

300 BC

★ 1.3

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Pudd'nhead Wilson · 1894

★ 1.3

Scripture · Religious literature

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:13 · 90

★ 1.3

Philosophical literature

When I communicate my thought and my sentiments to a friend with whom I am in full sympathy, so that my feelings pass into him and I am conscious of what he feels, do I not live in his brain as well as in my own-most literally!

Charles Sanders Peirce

1966

★ 1.7

Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend?

Nicholas Grimald

1557

★ 1.9

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Oliver Goldsmith

1768

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

The Education of Henry Adams · 1907

★ 1.9

Play · Comedic play

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

The Misanthrope · 1666

★ 1.9

Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

Jean de La Bruyere

The Characters · 1688

★ 1.9

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1777

★ 1.9

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Shadows on the Rock · 1931

★ 1.9

Play · Tragedy (play)

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet · 1616

★ 2.0

Essay · Magazine · Political literature

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature...to sympathise with a friend's success.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 2.0

Play · Comedic play

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Lady Windermere's Fan · 1892

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

Proverbs 27:17

686 BC

★ 2.1

Philosophical literature

Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 2.1

Play · Comedy (play)

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.

William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing · 1600

★ 2.1

Epigram · Philosophical literature

If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Pensees · 1662

★ 2.1

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