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Biography · Historical literature

One soul dwelling in two bodies.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

★ 8.1

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Romantic drama

Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Casablanca · 1942

★ 7.8

Philosophical literature

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC

★ 7.7

Philosophical literature

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

The Enchiridion · 135

★ 7.0

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 7.0

Film · Christmas (film) · Drama (film) · Christmas · Drama

Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.

Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life)

It's a Wonderful Life · 1946

★ 7.0

Film · Coming of age (film) · Coming of age

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?

Stand By Me · 1986

★ 6.9

The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self. The ultimate touchstone is witness: the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

2020

★ 5.0

Scripture · Religious literature

There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Proverbs 18:24

686 BC

★ 3.9

Be slow in chusing a Friend, be slower in changing.

Benjamin Franklin

1735

★ 3.9

Film · Action (film) · Drama (film) · Action · Drama

You can be my wingman anytime.

Top Gun · 1986

★ 3.9

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.

Beloved · 1987

★ 3.9

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Bubba was my best good friend and even I know that ain’t something you can find just around the corner.

Forrest Gump · 1994

★ 3.9

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

374

★ 3.8

Children's literature

You have been my friend... That in itself is a tremendous thing.

Charlotte's Web · 1952

★ 3.8

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy

No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive he always wants to have sex with her.

When Harry Met Sally... · 1989

★ 3.8

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

Friends share all things.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

★ 3.8

Historical literature · Political literature

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

Sallust, The War of Catiline · 50 BC

★ 3.7

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

Essays · 1580

★ 3.7

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1828

★ 3.7

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