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One soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. — Michael Corleone · 1974 Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle · 322 BC The enemy of my enemy is my friend. — Kautilya · 300 BC Remember, no man is a failure who has friends. — Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life) · 1946 We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879 All 48 quotes →

Friendship16 quotes

One soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle · 322 BC Remember, no man is a failure who has friends. — Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life) · 1946 I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone? — The Writer · 1986 Be slow in chusing a Friend, be slower in changing. — Benjamin Franklin · 1735 She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. — Toni Morrison · 1987 All 16 quotes →

Enemies5 quotes

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. — Michael Corleone · 1974 The enemy of my enemy is my friend. — Kautilya · 300 BC It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. — William Blake · 1815 Hear no ill of a Friend, nor speak any of an Enemy. — Benjamin Franklin · 1739 Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship. — Abraham Lincoln · 1865

Friends and enemies5 quotes

Value of friendship4 quotes

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle · 322 BC A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. — St. Jerome · 374 Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931 Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? — Nicholas Grimald · 1557

Envy3 quotes

For few there are among men in whom it is inborn to admire without envy a friend's good fortune. — Aeschylus · 458 BC Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. — Gore Vidal · 1973 Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature...to sympathise with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde · 1891

Family2 quotes

I don’t care how close you are. In the end, your friends are gonna let you down. Family: they’re the only ones you can depend on. — Tony Soprano · 2006 Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. — Jacques Delille · 1803

Friends and family2 quotes

Nature of friendship2 quotes

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. — Toni Morrison · 1987 I always thought we'd be friends forever. — Kirby Keger · 1985

Adversity1 quote

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle · 350 BC

Allies1 quote

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. — Kautilya · 300 BC

Books1 quote

Age, that Age appeared to be best in four things: Old Wood best to burn, Old Wine to drink, Old Friends to trust, and old Authors to read. — Francis Bacon · 1625

Brothers1 quote

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. — Proverbs 17:17 · 686 BC

Childhood friends1 quote

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone? — The Writer · 1986

Death1 quote

How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. — Alexander Pope · 1732

Death of friends1 quote

How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. — Alexander Pope · 1732

Dogs1 quote

Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends. — Alexander Pope · 1709

Empathy1 quote

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature...to sympathise with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde · 1891

Envy of friends1 quote

For few there are among men in whom it is inborn to admire without envy a friend's good fortune. — Aeschylus · 458 BC

Exile1 quote

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931

Existential solitude1 quote

We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879

Food1 quote

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third. — Leslie Knope · 2011

Forgiveness1 quote

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. — William Blake · 1815

Generosity1 quote

Friends share all things. — Pythagoras

Golden rule1 quote

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us. — Aristotle · 240

Gossip1 quote

Hear no ill of a Friend, nor speak any of an Enemy. — Benjamin Franklin · 1739

Guests and visitors1 quote

An old friend is never an extra guest. — Alexander Sebastian · 1946

Happiness1 quote

True happinesse Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth, and choice. — Ben Jonson · 1600

Influence on others1 quote

One has a right to judge of a man by the effect he has over his friends. — Oscar Wilde · 1891

Loneliness1 quote

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931

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