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Topic·Value of friendship✕clear

Philosophical literature

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

Aristotle

The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC

★ 7.7

Oh, the comfort-the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person-having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Dinah Craik

1859

★ 5.2

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

Forrest Gump · 1994

★ 3.9

Letter

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

St. Jerome

374

★ 3.8

Poem

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1828

★ 3.7

Personal journal

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1838

★ 3.7

Biography

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1784

★ 3.6

Philosophical literature

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

Epicurus

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

★ 2.1

Novel

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

Shadows on the Rock · 1931

★ 1.9

Poem

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

Nicholas Grimald

1557

★ 1.9

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