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Classical antiquity7 quotes
One soul dwelling in two bodies. — AristotleWithout friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle · 322 BCIf thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. — Epictetus · 135Friends share all things. — PythagorasTo like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. — Catiline · 50 BCA friend is, as it were, a second self. — Cicero · 44 BCAll 7 quotes →The Renaissance5 quotes
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: "Because it was he; because it was me." — Michel de Montaigne · 1580Fair face show friends
When riches do abound:
Come time of proof,
Farewell, they must away. — Barnabe Googe · 1563Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love. — William Shakespeare · 1600Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend. — William Shakespeare · 1616Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend,
What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? — Nicholas Grimald · 1557Age of Enlightenment2 quotes
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1768Ancient World2 quotes
Have no friends who are not of equal (moral) caliber. — Confucius · 221 BCFriendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. — Mencius · 300 BCOld Testament Era2 quotes
There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. — Proverbs 18:24 · 686 BCAs iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. — Proverbs 27:17 · 686 BCColonial America1 quote
Be slow in chusing a Friend, be slower in changing. — Benjamin Franklin · 1735Early Christianity1 quote
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. — St. Jerome · 374Middle Ages1 quote
Whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure. — St. Thomas Aquinas · 1265New Testament Era1 quote
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. — Jesus · 90