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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is hard enough to remember my opinions,
without also remembering my reasons for them!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I live in my own place -
have never copied anyone even half,
and at any master who lacks the grace -
to laugh at himself - I laugh.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In individuals, insanity is rare;
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
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
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
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
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
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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?
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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
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
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
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
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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 before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
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
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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