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A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
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