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To give, to take, to share a secret, to question, to treat, to accept a treat - these are the six signs of friendship.

"Dhammapada"

People on earth should be friends... I don't think it's possible to make all people love each other, but I would like to destroy the hatred between people.

Isaac Asimov

The sincerity of relationships, the truth in communication - that's friendship.

Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov

Each of our friends is a whole world for us, a world that might not have been born and which was born only thanks to our meeting with this person.

Anais Nin

A friend is one soul living in two bodies.

Aristotle

Friendship is content with the possible, without demanding what is due.

Aristotle

Choose a friend slowly, even less hurry to change him.

Benjamin Franklin

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend is always a brother.

Benjamin Franklin

Who wants to have a friend without flaws, he remains without friends.

Bias

Friendship multiplies joys and crushes sorrows.

Henry George Bon

Unity creates friendship.

Democritus

Those who illuminate the lives of others will not be left without light themselves.

James Matthew Barry

By lighting other people's candles from your lamp, you do not lose a single particle of the flame.

Jane Porter

Happiness is imperfect until you share it with others.

Jane Porter

The meaning of true friendship is that it doubles joy and bisects suffering.

Joseph Addison

True friendship is a slow-growing plant that must be tested in adversity and adversity before it deserves such a name.

George Washington

Looking for an ideal friend will be left without friends.

The one who has never sought either friendship or love is a thousand times poorer than the one who has lost them both.

Jean Paul

Know how to be a friend - you will find a friend.

Ignatius Krasitsky

Do not roughly break the thread of friendship, for if you have to tie it again, then a knot will remain.

Indian proverb

Truly, there is nothing better in life than the help of a friend and mutual joy.

John of Damascus

Friendship is not such a miserable light to go out in separation.

Johann Friedrich Schiller

True friendship is true and courageous.

Johann Friedrich Schiller

Only the hand of a friend can tear the thorns out of the heart.

Claude Adrian Helvetius

In the building of human happiness, friendship builds walls, and love forms a dome.

Kozma Prutkov

He who is human gives others support, wishing to have it himself, and helps them to achieve success, wishing to achieve it himself.

Confucius

When there is distrust, friendship disappears.

Labuis

That's what I liked today at Hekaton: “You ask, what have I achieved? Become your own friend!" He achieved a lot, because now he will never be alone. And know: such a person will be a friend to everyone.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)

A friend should always be in our soul, and the soul is always with us: it can at least every day see anyone it wants.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)

Friendship ends where distrust begins.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)

Having made friends, trust, judge before you make friends.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)

People are born to help each other, as the hand helps the hand, the foot helps the foot, and the upper jaw helps the lower.

Marcus Aurelius

Most the right way to achieve happiness for oneself is to seek it for others.

Martin Luther

Let people see the kindness shining in your face, in your eyes and in your friendly greeting. Let's all be one heart, one love.

Mother Teresa

In friendship there are no other calculations and considerations, except for itself.

Michel de Montaigne

A real friend is someone whom I would trust in everything that concerns me more than myself.

Michel de Montaigne

There seems to be nothing to which nature would push us more than to friendly communication.

Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is so much an expression of our free will as affection and friendship.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no asceticism equal to patience, there is no happiness equal to contentment, there is no gift equal to friendship, there is no virtue equal to compassion.

Wisdom of Ancient India

Who is himself good friend He also has many good friends.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Look at whether you love others, not whether others love you.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

Two people can save each other where one perishes.

Honore de Balzac

Friendship is like a treasury: it is impossible to draw more from it than you put into it.

Osip Mandelstam

In trouble you will know a friend.

Petronius Arbiter Gaius

In order to live long, keep an old wine and an old friend for yourself.

Pythagoras

Live with people so that your friends do not become enemies, and enemies become friends.

Pythagoras

By seeking the happiness of others, we find our own.

Close friendship happens among people who are similar to each other.

The only way to have a friend is to be one yourself.

A person needs another person.

Food and friendship are the little miracles that love can do.

Rita Schiavone

To be friends is more to love than to be loved.

Robert Bridges

Friendship is brotherhood, and in its highest meaning it is its most beautiful ideal.

Silvio Pellico

The eyes of friendship are rarely wrong.

François-Marie Arouet Voltaire

Miracles are beautiful, but to comfort a brother, to help a friend rise from the depths of suffering, to forgive an enemy for his errors - these are the greatest miracles in the world.

François-Marie Arouet Voltaire

The one who refuses to forgive another, as it were, destroys the bridge over which he himself will have to pass, for every person needs forgiveness.

Edward Herbert

Of all that wisdom brings to you for the happiness of your whole life, the most important thing is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

In all sorts of ways and ways, nature teaches people harmony. Not satisfied with the expression of mutual disposition in words, she made the community not only pleasant, but also necessary.

Erasmus of Rotterdam

A friend must bear some of the friend's grief.

Erasmus of Rotterdam

We truly live only when we give ourselves to others.

Ethel Percy Andrews

Every person on his life path wants and strives to find happiness. And everyone puts their understanding into this word. But, probably, no one will argue that one of the important components of happiness is friendship. Truth, real friendship, like real love, a rare occurrence. A quote by Marlene Dietrich even says that friendship unites people much more than love.

Trust, patience and reciprocity are what truly friendly relations are based on. And quotes about friendship will prove it to you.

Friendship is about learning to be human. And although no one is immune from mistakes, the main thing is to be able to notice them in yourself.

Everyone wants to see a faithful and sincere, spiritually rich and comprehensively developed person as their friend. And for this you need to be like that yourself. The ancient Greek poet Euripides, who is so much loved to quote, formulated even before our era: "Tell me who your friend is, and I will tell you who you are."

Of course, this doesn't always work. To quote the French philosopher Paul Valery: “Don't judge a man by his friends. With Judas, they were impeccable.” But, I want to believe that this is still an exception to the rule.

Friendship is such a great feeling that great people often talked about it. Poets, writers and philosophers have often addressed this topic. That's why there are so many wise quotes and aphorisms about friendship.

Sayings of great people about friendships

A true friend is with you when you're wrong. When you are right, everyone will be with you.
Mark Twain

A friend is a person who knows everything about us and yet loves us.
Elbert Hubbard

Love can be unrequited. Friendship never.
Janusz Wisniewski

Do not rush to choose friends, even more so to change them.
Benjamin Franklin

Only the hand of a friend can tear the thorns out of the heart.
Claude-Adrian Helvetius

In the hustle and bustle of this world, friendship is the only thing that matters in personal life.
Karl Marx

Sincerity of relations, truth in communication - that's friendship.
Alexander Suvorov

He who does not seek friends for himself is his own enemy.
Shota Rustaveli

People can drink together, they can live under the same roof, they can make love, but only joint activities of idiocy indicate real spiritual and spiritual intimacy.
Eva Rapoport

What is alive who did not know the saint of friendship? It is like an empty pearl.
Alisher Navoi

In the building of human happiness, friendship builds walls, and love forms a dome.
Kozma Prutkov

Whoever is human gives others support, wishing to have it himself, and helps them to achieve success, wishing to achieve it himself.
Confucius

Publius

Friendship is when a person feels good just like that.
Yuri Nagibin

Friendship multiplies joys and crushes sorrows.
Henry George Bon

Stretching out your hand to friends, do not clench your fingers into a fist.
Diogenes

All the honors of this world are not worth one good friend.
Voltaire

We love friends for their shortcomings.
William Hazlitt

The Lord gave us relatives, but we, thank God, are free to choose our friends.
Ethel Mumford

Without true friendship, life is nothing.
Cicero

Henrik Ibsen

Friendship penetrates into the lives of all people, but in order to preserve it, it is sometimes necessary to endure grievances.
Cicero

In my life I have become convinced that talking with friends most of all and most inconspicuously takes away time; friends are great time thieves.
Francesco Petrarca

People are born to help each other, as the hand helps the hand, the foot helps the foot, and the upper jaw helps the lower.
Marcus Aurelius

He who is a good friend himself has many good friends.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Who wants to have a friend without flaws, he remains without friends.
Bias

The friendship that ended never actually began.
Publius

Friendship is not such a miserable light to go out in separation.
Johann Schiller

A true friend is someone who will hold your hand and feel your heart.
Gabriel Marquez

Friendship does not need a slave or a master. Friendship loves equality.
Ivan Goncharov

There are people we forgive and there are people we don't forgive. The ones we don't forgive are our friends.
Henri Monterlan

You don't have to be a dog to be a friend.
Mikhail Zadornov

It is better to be in darkness than without a friend.
John Chrysostom

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Nathan

Friendship is the harbor to which a person aspires, it brings joy and peace of mind, it is rest in this life and the beginning of heavenly life.
Torquato Tasso

It's not so hard to die for a friend as it is to find a friend worth dying for.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Most lovely gift made to people after wisdom is friendship.
François La Rochefoucauld

The law of friendship prescribes to love a friend no less, but no more than yourself.
Aurelius Augustine

The best pleasure, the highest joy in life is to feel needed and loved by people.
Maksim Gorky

You can never do too much for a devoted friend.
Henrik Ibsen

I thought we were friends forever. Eternity turned out to be much shorter.

Do not try to embellish yourself for a friend: for the arrow and striving towards the Superman must be for him.

"Friedrich Nietzsche"

When friendship becomes love, they merge like two rivers, of which the larger one absorbs the smaller one.

"Madeleine de Scudery"

Friendship can unite only worthy people.

"Cicero"

True friendship does not know envy, and true love does not know coquetry.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I do not need a friend who, agreeing with me in everything, changes his views with me, nodding his head, because the shadow does the same better.

"Plutarch"

Remember, friend: it is more difficult to find a Friend than a girlfriend.

"Lope de Vega"

Friendship is not only invaluable, but also beautiful; we praise the one who loves his friends, and having many friends seems to be something wonderful, and to some it even seems to be a good man and the other one and the same.

"Aristotle"

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It's more than power. It's almost the same as a family.

Keep away from your enemies and be careful with your friends. A true friend is a strong defense: whoever finds him has found a treasure. A true friend has no price and no measure of his kindness.

Don't tell your friend what your enemy shouldn't know.

"Arthur Schopenhauer"

Only a true friend can tolerate his friend's weaknesses.

"William Shakespeare"

True friendship must be frank and free from pretense and assent.

"Cicero"

Hatred for the same subject brings people together a hundred times stronger than love, friendship, respect combined.

My friendship is too circumspect if my friend's danger does not make me forget my own danger.

"Denis Diderot"

A true friend is one whom I would trust in everything that concerns me more than myself.

"Michel de Montaigne"

The rich man has companions and hangers-on, the powerful man has courtiers, the man of action has comrades, and they are also his friends.

"André Maurois"

The only way to find a friend is to be one.

"Ralph Waldo Emerson"

A friend is a person with whom I can be sincere. In his presence, I can think aloud.

"Ralph Waldo Emerson"

He who, for his own benefit, would let down a friend, has no right to friendship.

"Jean Jacques Rousseau"

It is more difficult to fulfill the obligations of friendship than to be delighted with them.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

We love friends for their shortcomings.

"William Hazlitt"

Those who love to blame others are incapable of friendship.

"Democritus"

Wash your hands, brother, from that friend who associates with your enemies.

"Unsur al-Maali"

A true friend will help a friend, he is not afraid of trouble. He will give his heart for a heart, and love is a star on the way.

"Shota Rustaveli"

Friendship penetrates the lives of all people, but in order to maintain it, sometimes it is necessary to endure grievances.

"Cicero"

Do not frequently enter your friend's house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

"Joseph Joubert"

We are similar in hearts; he is like I am different: I share grief with him, he shares joy with me.

"Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin"

Friendship is based on the similarity of characters and interests in a common common cause, and not on the pleasure that you get from the personality of another.

"Hegel"

If your friend becomes an enemy to you, then love him so that the tree of friendship, love and trust will bloom again, withered due to the fact that he was not watered with the water of friendship and was not cared for.

"As-Samarkandi"

If my friends are crooked, I look at them in profile.

"Joseph Joubert"

Friendship between a man and a woman is very weak at nightfall.

"Otto von Bismarck"

Many are treats of friends, not friendship.

"Menander"

Quotes about friends

There is no greater joy than to see friends, there is no bitterer grief than separation from friends.

"Rudaki"

A desecration of friendship - This is a discord with wisdom.

"Shota Rustaveli"

Do not shun a friend because of a little joke and do not be offended, for this is a sign of stupidity.

"As-Samarkandi"

True friendship is true and courageous.

"Johann Friedrich Schiller"

Whoever wants to have friends must be friendly himself; and there is a friend who is more attached than a brother.

"Solomon"

To have many friends is to have none.

"Erasmus of Rotterdam"

If friendship falls apart after the first push, stumbles over the very first bump on the way, crumbles into dust from the wind, this is no friendship. And so, pampering is one thing, friendship - and no more.

One of the first duties of friendship is to forestall the requests of friends.

"Isocrates"

There is no friendship between a guy and a girl. She just tells him everything best friend and he wants it!

The only sincere and lasting friendship is between a man and a woman, because it is the only affection that is free from all rivalry.

"Auguste Comte"

I retired from the world, not because I had enemies, but because I had friends. Not because they harmed me, as is usually the case, but because they considered me better than I am. I couldn't bear this lie.

"Albert Camus"

The inferiority of our friends gives us no little pleasure.

"Philip Chesterfield"

There is no greater love than if a man lays down his life for his friends.

If my friend falls off the bridge, I won't run after him. It is better to stand under the bridge and catch a flying friend in time.

In practice, it always turns out that the best friend is the only one. All the rest are ordinary friends or acquaintances who suddenly happened to be nearby during this period.

How easy it is to pronounce the word "friendship", but not everyone is able to be friends, so this concept in life should be highly valued.

Having common property, one can acquire mutual hatred. A common enemy always unites.

Buddies are the kind of people who always remember where you messed up, and even make fun of it.

You can communicate with many, but a true friend is one.

To be friends means together, despite the sober state, to laugh uncontrollably to tears, for a reason and without it.

To cry, there is a pillow, by March 8th there are flowers, but for the soul I want a girlfriend, as cool as you!

If misfortune befell both friends at once, they, like two flowers nailed by the wind, rallying together, will find the strength to withstand any bad weather.

Continuation beautiful quotes read on pages:

When we lose a true friend, Nothing can heal the mental illness. — Pierre Corneille

Test a friend, but love a tried one. - Unknown author

Whoever wants to have friends must be friendly himself; and there is a friend who is more attached than a brother. - Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

Friendship and community are born in people when there is a common enemy. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

As rare as true love is, true friendship is even rarer. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Do not shun a friend because of a little joke and do not be offended, for this is a sign of stupidity. – As-Samarkandi

To have many friends is to have none. - Erasmus of Rotterdam

Friends have everything in common, and friendship is equality. - Pythagoras of Samos

The fraternal closeness of like-minded people is stronger than any walls. - Antisthenes of Athens

The friendship of vicious people is unreliable; it lasts only as long as it serves mutual benefit. — Oliver Goldsmith

Remember, friend: it is more difficult to find a Friend than a girlfriend. — Lope de Vega

My friendship is too circumspect if my friend's danger does not make me forget my own danger. — Denis Diderot

In happiness it is easy to find a friend, in misfortune it is extremely difficult. – Democritus

Friendship warms the soul, a dress warms the body, and the sun and the stove warm the air. – Kozma Prutkov

A friend is known by love, disposition, speeches, deeds. - Unknown author

Fulfilling the duties of friendship is somewhat more difficult than admiring it. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It is wise to pour the oil of delicate politeness on the wheel of friendship. — Gabrielle Sidonie Colette

There is no more desolate desert than life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and alleviates troubles; consolation of the soul, it is the only cure for a hostile fate. – Baltasar Gracian y Morales

There is nothing more precious than friends; lose no opportunity, therefore, to acquire them whenever you can. — Francesco Guicciardini

Keep away from your enemies and be careful with your friends. A true friend is a strong defense: whoever finds him has found a treasure. A true friend has no price and no measure of his kindness. - Old Testament. Sirach

It is not safe to praise the object of your love to a friend - as soon as he believes your praises, he will follow in your footsteps. – Ovid

We love friends for their shortcomings. — William Hazlitt

I don't know anything equal to the true friendship of an intelligent person - what a rare gem it is. — Tobias George Smollett

In the hustle and bustle of this world, friendship is the only thing that matters in personal life... - Karl Marx

Friendship ends where distrust begins. - Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

Fellowship and friendship are signs of a real reconciliation with one's gender role and a real balance between the sexes. — Alfred Adler

Don't tell your friend what your enemy shouldn't know. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Friendship is based on the similarity of characters and interests in a common common cause, and not on the pleasure that you get from the personality of another. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Without a comrade, no happiness pleases. - Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

A sweet mouth will increase friends, and a kind tongue will increase affection. Let there be many who live with you in peace, and let one of a thousand be your adviser. If you want to win a friend, win him after a trial and do not trust him quickly. - Old Testament. Sirach

A friend is a mirror for a friend, there is no mirror brighter! - Auhad al-Din Anwari

It's not about who you were born from, but who you hang out with. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

It is better for a man to be without a brother than without friends. – Unsur al-Maali

The highest honor that my friends can give me is to follow my teachings in their lives, or to fight against it to the end if they do not believe in it. – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

A true friend is the greatest of blessings, and at the same time that blessing, the acquisition of which is least thought of. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Human friendship in most cases sprouts with many prickly ifs and buts and eventually turns into ordinary friendly relations, which are kept only thanks to omissions. – Nicola Sebastian Chamfort

Do not keep the alabaster vessels of your love and tenderness sealed until your friends are dead. Fill their life with sweetness while they are still alive. Speak words of comfort to them while their ears can still hear those words, and while their hearts can still be moved by your words. — Henry Ward Beecher

What, in fact, is wrong in the fact that my friend loves himself more than me? — Francis Bacon

The deepest friendship breeds the most bitter enmity. — Michel de Montaigne

A desecration of friendship - This is a discord with wisdom. – Shota Rustaveli

Many are treats of friends, not friendship. – Menander

Friendship is a calm and quiet affection, guided and strengthened by habit, which arises from long association and mutual commitment. — David Hume

Consider the person who removes stones and thorns from your path as a true friend. – Saadi

Not to notice the cooling of people means little appreciation of their friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Be sincere with your friends, moderate in your needs and disinterested in your actions. - Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov

True friendship matures slowly and blossoms only where people have really proved it to each other. – Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

How much charm our happiness would lose if no one rejoiced in it with us! How difficult it would be to endure our misfortunes without a friend who experiences them even more than we do. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

You can't get a true friend with money. - Unknown author

Don't be cheeky with your friends, otherwise your friends will be nothing but nonentities. – Hong Zicheng

Friendship is the most necessary thing for life, since no one wants to live without friends, even if he had all the other benefits. – Aristotle

True is the ancient proverb that equality creates friendship. – Plato

Do not try to embellish yourself for a friend: for the arrow and striving towards the Superman must be for him. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Friendship is based on the benefits that friends expect from each other. Deprive them of these benefits - and friendship will cease to exist. – Paul Henri Holbach

Share your thoughts with a friend. - Unknown author

Attract friends to you by good deeds. This is the meaning of true friendship. – Abu-l-Faraj

Never enter into friendship with a person whom you cannot respect. - Charles Darwin

Friendship penetrates the lives of all people, but in order to maintain it, sometimes it is necessary to endure grievances. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

True friendship is precisely chosen kinship. – Ernest Wilfried Aeguwe

The inferiority of our friends gives us no little pleasure. – Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

What is friendship? The word, the illusion that enchants us, the shadow that follows happiness and disappears in hours of misfortune! — Oliver Goldsmith

There is no greater joy than to see friends, there is no bitterer grief than separation from friends. – Rudaki

Important friends - for important things ... Therefore, having important friends and being able to save them is more important than having money. – Baltasar Gracian y Morales

Friendship can be strong only with the maturity of the mind and age. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

Friendship doubles the joys and cuts the sorrows in half. — Francis Bacon

Affection can do without reciprocity, but friendship never. – Jean Jacques Rousseau

In order to win the favor of friends, it is necessary to value their services higher than they do themselves; on the contrary, our favors to friends must be considered less than our friends believe. – Plato

A true gentleman is never a friend of the heart. — Edmund Burke

Having learned a secret from a friend, do not betray it by becoming an enemy: you will not strike an enemy, but friendship. – Democritus

The rich man has companions and hangers-on, the powerful man has courtiers, the man of action has comrades, and they are also his friends. — André Maurois

I retired from the world, not because I had enemies, but because I had friends. Not because they harmed me, as is usually the case, but because they considered me better than I am. I couldn't bear this lie. — Albert Camus

A true friend should be our second self; he will never demand from a friend anything but moral beauty; Friendship is given to us by nature, as an assistant in virtues, and not as a companion in vices. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

Being deceived by friends, we may be indifferent to the manifestations of their friendship, but we must sympathize with them in their misfortunes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A comrade is a high wall, an indestructible stronghold, a fortress reliably supplied with water. – Sulkhan Orbeliani

A friend who is useless to his friend becomes a stranger to him. – Paul Henri Holbach

The name friend sounds everyday, but friendly fidelity is rare. – Phaedrus

In friendship there are no calculations and considerations, except for itself. — Michel de Montaigne

You can't have too many friends. - Alexandre Dumas (father)

Unity creates friendship. – Democritus

There can be no long-term friendship, subordination, comradeship where one does not adapt to the other. — Francesco Guicciardini

Nothing can inspire and help people like friendship. – Ba Jing

There is no greater love than if a man lays down his life for his friends. New Testament. Gospel of John

If your friend becomes an enemy to you, then love him so that the tree of friendship, love and trust will bloom again, withered due to the fact that he was not watered with the water of friendship and was not cared for. – As-Samarkandi

A friend is the greatest wealth in life. - Unknown author

No worldly blessings will be pleasant to us if we use them alone, not sharing them with friends. - Erasmus of Rotterdam

True friendship is true and courageous. — Johann Friedrich Schiller

If a friend reproaches you for any shortcoming, always think that he has not yet told you everything. — Thomas Fuller

They say that friends are known in misfortune, but in my opinion, they are also known in happiness. - Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov

He who does not seek friends for himself is his own enemy. – Shota Rustaveli

Everyone wants to have a friend, but no one wants to be a friend. – Alphonse Jean Carr

As long as you are happy, you have many friends; when times are dark, you are left alone. – Ovid

Without friendship, no communication between people has value. – Socrates

Friendship is not fastened with the mind - it is easily terminated by stupidity. - William Shakespeare

Choose a friend slowly, even less hurry to change him. - Benjamin Franklin

True friendship does not know envy, and true love does not know coquetry. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sincerity of relations, truth in communication - that's friendship. - Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov

The greatest feat of friendship is not to show a friend our shortcomings, but to open his eyes to his own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the world, we have three kinds of friends: some love us, others hate us, others simply do not remember. – Nicola Sebastian Chamfort

There is little friendship in the world - and least of all among equals. — Francis Bacon

Such a friendship, which does not withstand the touch of naked truth, is not worth regretting. That's where she belongs. - Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev

Diligently avoid all friendship with fools and rogues, if the word friendship is generally applicable in relations with such people. – Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

The most beautiful gift given to people after wisdom is friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is better to be in darkness than without a friend. - John Chrysostom

Friendship is love without wings. – George Noel Gordon Byron

A friend should bear the shortcomings of a friend. - William Shakespeare

A friend cannot be offended even by a joke. - Unknown author

Less exalted, less selfish than love, friendship, devoid of any harshness, occupies hours that are not occupied by the latter. Friendship is a sure, reliable refuge from the suffering caused by love. – Marcel Prevost

Have you become clean air, bread and medicine for your friend? Another is unable to free himself from his own chains, but saves his friend. - Friedrich Nietzsche

A wise friend will not abandon a friend, despite all the hardships. – Shota Rustaveli

Better hitting friends than kissing enemies. - John Chrysostom

The happiness that has never deceived me is your friendship. Of all my passions, the only one that has remained unchanged is my friendship for you, for my friendship is a passion. - Nikolai Platonovich Ogarev

Friendship between a man and a woman is very weak at nightfall. – Otto von Schönhausen Bismarck

A friend is, as it were, a second self. - Cicero Mark Tullius

A bad friend is like a shadow: on a sunny day, run - you won’t run away; on a cloudy day, look - you won’t find it. – Abai Kunanbaev

Do not consider friends of the cup as friends, for they are friends of your cup, and not your friends. – Unsur al-Maali

True friendship is one of those things that, like giant sea serpents, is unknown whether they are fictional or exist somewhere. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The friendship of one reasonable person is more precious than the friendship of all unreasonable ones. – Democritus

Friends do not wish us unhappiness, but they find that we are already happy. – Aui Legendre

There are no debtors or benefactors in friendship. — Romain Rouyan

Wrong friends are swallows, which you meet only in summer; it is a sundial, the benefit of which is only as long as the sun shines. – Theodor Gottlieb Hippel

When friendship becomes love, they merge like two rivers, of which the larger one absorbs the smaller one. - Madeleine de Scudery

Only a true friend can tolerate his friend's weaknesses. - William Shakespeare

Friendship is not only invaluable, but also beautiful; we praise the one who loves his friends, and having many friends seems to be something wonderful, and some even think that being a good person and a friend is one and the same. – Aristotle

Those who love to blame others are incapable of friendship. – Democritus

If my friends are crooked, I look at them in profile. — Joseph Joubert

The enjoyment of communication is the main sign of friendship. – Aristotle

A true friend is one whom I would trust in everything that concerns me more than myself. — Michel de Montaigne

Sincere friendship is based on the proximity of minds and secret laws, and not on visible signs. – As-Samarkandi

It's hard without a friend when he's lost. But it is also difficult with a friend when he is not faithful. – Aibek

There is nothing more dangerous than an ignorant friend. – Jean de La Fontaine

Women though they give great importance friendship, but forget about it; men are distrustful of her, and lovers are jealous. – Paul Charles Joseph Bourget

The only way to find a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

But if you have a suffering friend, become a place of rest for his suffering, but at the same time a hard bed, a camp bed: this is how you can best help him. - Friedrich Nietzsche

In friendship, as in love, what brings happiness more often is what we do not know than what we know. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The only sincere and lasting friendship is between a man and a woman, because it is the only affection that is free from all rivalry. — Auguste Comte

For high friendship, one condition is necessary - the ability to do without it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are many friends; friendship is rare. – Phaedrus

Why am I getting a friend? To have someone to die for. - Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

Friendship is content with the possible, without demanding what is due. – Aristotle

Whoever is a good friend, he also has good friends. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Friends are there to help each other. — Romain Rolland

All the honors of this world are not worth one good friend. – Voltaire

In general, friendship can be judged only in relation to people of mature age and a mature soul. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

Only the hand of a friend can tear the thorns out of the heart. – Claude Adrian Helvetius

Everyone loves himself not in order to receive any reward for his love, but because everyone is dear to himself. If the same is not applied to friendship, then we will never find a true friend; after all, a friend for everyone is the second he himself. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

Better friend or brother? - A brother, when he is a friend, is better. – Unsur al-Maali

There is no greater joy in this world than the sight of relatives and friends. There is no more painful torment on earth than to be with glorious friends in separation. – Rudaki

A friend is someone who, whenever you need him, knows about it. — Jules Renard

Leave not an old friend, for a new one cannot be compared with him; A new friend is like new wine: when it becomes old, you will drink it with pleasure. - Old Testament. Sirach

Do not frequently enter your friend's house, lest he become weary of you and hate you. - Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

You can never do too much for a devoted friend. – Henrik Ibsen

True friends are those who have one soul in two bodies. — Michel de Montaigne

The eyes of friendship are rarely wrong. – Voltaire

He who, for his own benefit, would let down a friend, has no right to friendship. – Jean Jacques Rousseau

There is nothing better and more pleasant in the world than friendship; excluding friendship from life is like depriving the world of sunshine. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

Friendship is not such a miserable light to go out in separation. — Johann Friedrich Schiller

Perhaps, in order to fully appreciate friendship, one must first experience love. – Nicola Sebastian Chamfort

Iron sharpens iron, and a man refines his friend's gaze. - Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

Of all that wisdom brings to itself for the happiness of a lifetime, the most important is the possession of friendship. – Epicurus

Friendship - delicate flower. One careless touch - and the flower withered. – Sun Li

It is more difficult to fulfill the obligations of friendship than to be delighted with them. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

One of the first duties of friendship is to forestall the requests of friends. – Isocrates

I do not need a friend who, agreeing with me in everything, changes his views with me, nodding his head, because the shadow does the same better. – Plutarch

Everyone in the world has enemies, But save us from friends, O God! – Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

Wash your hands, brother, from that friend who associates with your enemies. – Unsur al-Maali

In relation to your friends, you need to be as less burdensome as possible. The most delicate thing is not to demand any favors from your friends. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A foolish friend out of friendship will do what a hundred reasonable enemies will not do out of enmity. – Unsur al-Maali

Friends are thieves of time. — Francis Bacon

The question arises whether it is ever possible to prefer new friends to old ones. - Unknown author

A friend is a person with whom I can be sincere. In his presence, I can think aloud. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend should be like blood flowing immediately to a wound, without waiting to be attracted. — Antonio Perez

A friend must bear some of the friend's grief. - Erasmus of Rotterdam

Hiding the truth from friends, to whom will you open up? – Kozma Prutkov

Stretching out your hand to friends, do not clench your fingers into a fist. - Diogenes of Sinop

For friendship, any burden is easy. The universe is eternal, meetings with friends are brief. - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky

A man is judged by his friends. – Baltasar Gracian y Morales

He who boasts that he has made many friends has never had a single friend. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Whoever seeks friends is worthy of finding them; whoever has no friends never looked for them. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend is always a brother. - Benjamin Franklin

Whoever associates with the wise will be wise, but whoever associates with fools will become corrupt. - Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

But you distinguish between the shell and the core. Introducing yourself as a friend is not so smart. — Hisrav Dehlavi

Friendship can unite only worthy people. – Cicero Marcus Tullius

I enter into friendship with very few, but I cherish it. - Karl Marx

Close friendship happens among people who are similar to each other. – Plato

Do not judge a person only by his friends. Remember that Judas' friends were impeccable. - Ernest Hemingway

It's not so hard to die for a friend as it is to find a friend worth dying for. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

It is better to sort out a dispute between your enemies than between friends, because after that one of your friends will certainly become your enemy, and one of your enemies your friend.

Best friends are ready to give their lives for each other, but when it comes to chewing gum ... fuck you, it's the last one!

A best friend is always a very good friend, but a good friend is not always the best.

The best friend is the one who is ready to give his life for you. But he will never do this just because his life already belongs to another, along with his heart.

The best friend, like love, is a completely inexplicable thing. You can quarrel at any moment, or you can tell each other everything you think, but he still won’t be offended by you.

The winner has many friends, and only the loser has real ones.

It's not hard to die for a friend, it's hard to find a friend worth dying for.

It's good when there is such a friend who cheers you up just by smiling at you.

It's good when a dog is a friend, but it's bad when a friend is a dog.

It is better to have one friend of great value than many of little value.

Better few friends and strong friendship than many "friends" and spitting behind your back...

When friends tell you about their problems, they don't complain, they just trust you!

Shout - anyone will hear, whisper - the nearest will hear. But only a true friend will hear you when you are silent..

The best friend - does not get angry at you because of trifles, does not take offense at trifles, does not notice your shortcomings ... But, nevertheless, you should not test her good attitude towards you for strength.

Consider the person who removes stones and thorns from your path as a true friend.

Important friends - for important things ... Therefore, having important friends and being able to save them is more important than having money.

"Baltasar Gracian y Morales"

The best friend is the person who knows everything about us and yet loves us.

"Elbert Hubbard"

A best friend is someone you can sit with without saying a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

True friendship is possible only when silence does not strain the interlocutors.

The wise man was asked: How many kinds of friendship are there? Four, he replied. Friends are like food - every day you need them. There are friends, like medicine, you look for them when you feel bad. There are friends, like a disease, they themselves are looking for you. But there are such friends as air - they are not visible, but they are always with you ...

Quotes About Best Friends

A true friend is with you when you're wrong. When you are right, everyone will be with you.

A true friend is someone who holds your hand and feels your heart.

You can never do too much for a devoted friend.

"Henrik Ibsen"

A true friend is someone who walks through your door...even if the whole world has walked out of it.

Good friends will never let you do stupid things...alone.

Nothing replaces old friendship. Years do not add friends, they take them away, bred on different roads. Time tests friendship for rupture, for fatigue, for fidelity. The circle of friends is thinning, but there is nothing more precious than those who remain.

He who is a good friend himself has many good friends.