What is friendship, and what forms can it take between men and women, classmates and colleagues, young and old?
Various aphorisms and quotes about friendship will help clarify the situation, figure out who is your friend and just have fun.
Many aphorisms and quotes about friendship are short and precise wise statements that are quite suitable for our days, although they were uttered by people who have long gone from us. And there is nothing strange in this, because human feelings endure eras and are inherent in all people.
“As rare as true love is, true friendship is even rarer.”
François La Rochefoucauld
"The greatest pleasure an honest man can feel is to please his friends"
Voltaire
“Friendship, which is given for money, and not acquired by the greatness and nobility of the soul, can be bought, but cannot be kept”
Niccolo Machiavelli
"Language is the best mediator for establishing friendship and harmony"
Erasmus of Rotterdam
"A man is judged by his friends"
Baltasar Gracian y Morales
"Friends have everything in common, and friendship is equality"
Pythagoras
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
“There are few fit to be good friends, and even fewer for someone who does not know how to select”
Baltasar Gracian y Morales
"At the pinnacle of greatness, do not forget that a friend is in need"
Johann Schiller
"True friends are those who have "one soul in two bodies""
Michel Montaigne
“In relations with friends, advise them to do only what they are able to do, and lead them to good without violating decorum, but do not try to act where there is no hope of success. Don't put yourself in a humiliating position."
Confucius
“Trust is the first condition of friendship; it can be said to serve as the threshold of the temple, while the readiness to make sacrifices is the temple itself.
Jean La Bruyère
Friendship sees everything and pays no attention to anything. Love pays attention to everything and sees nothing.
Don Aminado
"A friend is a person who won't sell you for nothing"
Gabriel Laub
“With happiness, there are never friends ... A person during happiness is very high, and our hearts are only open downwards”
Nicholas Roerich
“Friendship is based on mutual benefit, on common interests; but as soon as interests collide, friendship is terminated: look for it in the clouds "
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Self-love is the poison of friendship"
Honore Balzac
“I enter into friendship with very few, but I value it”
Karl Marx
"Friendship usually serves as a transition from a simple acquaintance to enmity"
Vasily Klyuchevsky
"Imperfection is what we like in our friends"
Philip Chesterfield
"The only way to find a friend is to be one"
Ralph Emerson
"All the honors of this world are not worth one good friend"
Voltaire
"He who boasts that he has made many friends has never had a single friend"
Samuel Coleridge
“Friendship must be a strong thing, capable of surviving all changes in temperature and all the shocks of that bumpy road along which efficient and decent people make their life journey”
Alexander Herzen
"A friend should be like blood flowing immediately to a wound, without waiting to be attracted"
Antonio Perez
"The friendship of two women is always a conspiracy against the third"
Jean Carr
“Many of our misfortunes would be easier to endure than the consolations of our friends”
Charles Colton
“One of the common base things is to blame absent friends in order to please others”
Pierre Buast
“Friends love you the way you are; your wife loves you and wants to make another person out of you."
Gilbert Chesterton
"The most I can do for my friend is just to be his friend"
Henry Thoreau
“In nothing I find such happiness as in a soul that keeps the memory of my good friends”
William Shakespeare
“Those with whom we shared joys are remembered with pleasure; those with whom we endured hardships together - with tenderness "
Samuel Johnson
“Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although often neither of them admits this to himself”
Mikhail Lermontov
“No matter how demanding people are in love, they still forgive more offenses to those they love than to those with whom they are friends”
Jean La Bruyère
“In the world, we have three kinds of friends: some love us, others hate us, others simply don’t remember”
Nicola Chamfort
“Important friends are for important things ... Therefore, having important friends and being able to save them is more important than having money”
Baltasar Gracian y Morales
"You shouldn't say nasty things about friends you just dined with within a 100 meter radius of their house."
André Maurois
“Friends find pleasure in communicating with each other because they equally look at the moral duties of a person”
Jean La Bruyère
"The most beautiful girl cannot give more than he has; and the most devoted friend can only remain silent about what he does not know.
Alfred Musset
“Without difficulty, you can make anyone you want a friend, you just have to say something good about him when he is not in that conversation about which there are many who want to tell him. The beginning of friendship is promoted by praise, the beginning of enmity is censure.
Basil the Macedonian
"A true friend is someone who will hold your hand and feel your heart"
Gabriel Marquez
“Perhaps in order to fully appreciate friendship, one must first experience love”
Nicola Chamfort
"Only he makes true friends who is a friend to himself"
Leonid Andreev
“There is no person without flaws - and thank God, because such a person would not have friends”
William Gaslitt
“The only reward for virtue is virtue itself; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend"
Ralph Emerson
“In solitude, a person is a weak being, in unity with others, a strong one. The deep, penetrating look of a friend, the word of his advice, his consolations part and raise what is low above him.
Johann Herder
"It is easier and more exciting to hate enemies than to love friends"
Bertrand Russell
“We prefer an open enemy to a false friend”
Friedrich Engels
"To write about your friend is to quarrel with him forever"
Jules Renard
“Friendship does not need a slave or a master. Friendship loves equality"
Ivan Goncharov
“Close fellowship is where the tenderest friendship and the strongest hatred come from”
Antoine Rivarol
“There are no calculations and considerations in friendship, except for itself”
Michel Montaigne
“From the flame of love sometimes remains the ashes of friendship”
Henri Renier
"Friends are thieves of time"
Francis Bacon
"Only a true friend can tolerate his friend's weaknesses"
William Shakespeare
"Old acquaintances and old friendships appear only in youth"
Vladislav Grzegorchik
“Hiding anything from friends is dangerous; but it’s even more dangerous not to hide anything from them.”
Jean La Fontaine
“The good done by an enemy is as hard to forget as it is hard to remember the good done by a friend. For good we pay good only to the enemy; for evil we avenge both the enemy and the friend "
Vasily Klyuchevsky
"Friendship doubles the joys and cuts the sorrows in half"
Francis Bacon
"Friendship is not a service, no thanks for it"
Gabriel Derzhavin
"Our high-ranking friends do not impress us, but we hope that they impress our other friends"
Jean Rostand
“Restraint in love or friendship would be a stupid whim and, moreover, an act of selfishness, killing all feeling, first in ourselves, and then in the loved one”
George Sand
“Unfaithful 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 Gippel
"I do not need a friend who repeats my every gesture: my shadow does much better"
Plutarch
“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 Hegel
“A betrayal of a friend is much more painful than a betrayal of a loved one, because you don’t expect it from him”
Etienne Rey
“The two most terrible phrases in the world are: “I need to talk to you” and “I hope we remain friends.” The funny thing is, they always lead to the opposite result, breaking both conversation and friendship.
Frederic Begbeder
“Both in friendship and in love, sooner or later, the time comes for settling accounts”
George Shaw
“If a man wants to be considered smarter than he really is, and a woman wants to be considered more beautiful, this delusion is beneficial for both of them and harmless to others. And I would rather make them my friends, indulging them, than my enemies, trying, and moreover in vain, to lead them out of this error.
Philip Chesterfield
"You don't have to be a dog to be a friend"
Mikhail Zadornov
“If you want to know what your friend thinks about you, make him angry”
Oliver Holmes
“All the trouble that your worst enemy can say to your face is nothing compared to what your best friends say about you behind your back.”
Alfred Musset
“You can’t love - sit be friends!”
Mikhail Zhvanetsky
"The cradle of personal success in life is the preservation of friendship, trust and respect from your closest neighbor"
Booker Washington
"The deepest friendship breeds the most bitter enmity"
Michel Montaigne
“Two unfortunates who are in friendship are like two weak trees, which, leaning on one another, can more easily resist storms and all kinds of violent winds”
Kozma Prutkov
"Listen, friend: to entertain you, I will tell you about my latest trouble"
Karol Izhikovsky
“There are people we forgive and there are people we don’t forgive. The ones we don't forgive are our friends."
Henri Monterlan
“A truly kind and amiable person can have as many friends as he wants, but not always the ones he wants”
Maria Ebner Eschenbach
“Friends help us live and interfere with work”
Tadeusz Kotarbinski
“Human friendship in most cases sprouts with many prickly “ifs” and “buts” and eventually turns into ordinary friendly relations that are kept only thanks to omissions”
Nicola Chamfort
“The ancients said: one must strive to obtain worldly goods for oneself in order to help friends in need. What deep human wisdom is contained in these words!
Karl Marx
"Misunderstanding makes enemies out of friends"
Lion Feuchtwanger
"Egoists are our only friends with whom we are friends disinterestedly"
Henri Monterlan
“All sympathize with the misfortunes of their friends, and only a few rejoice at their successes”
Oscar Wilde
“Love can be unrequited. Friendship never. Love is full of pride, selfishness, greed, ingratitude. She does not recognize merit and does not distribute diplomas. Besides, friendship is exceptionally rarely the end of love."
Janusz Wisniewski
“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 Hegel
“When there are no friends, birthdays are celebrated in a nightclub”
Frederic Begbeder
“We do not allow our friends to look into the very depths of our hearts, we do this not so much out of distrust of them, but out of distrust of ourselves”
François La Rochefoucauld
“There are no friends in politics and cards”
Finley Dunn
“If we want to destroy some state, we must start making friends with this state. They somehow endured the arms race with us, but no one can endure friendship.
Mikhail Zadornov
"How few friends would remain friends if they could fully know each other's thoughts"
Georg Lichtenberg
“You must keep the secrets of your friends. He who does not keep a secret dishonors his conscience and puts his trust in himself to shame.
John of Damascus
"Time strengthens friendship, but weakens love"
Jean La Bruyère
"Friends are not always friends"
Mikhail Lermontov
"Help yourself and your friends will love you more"
Jonathan Swift
“In old age, the number of friends does not increase: then all losses are irretrievable”
Luc Vauvenargue
"A true friend is known in the trouble he has brought us to"
Wiesław Brudzinski
"Never befriend someone you can't respect"
Charles Darwin
“Friendship is one of the greatest joys of life; one of the greatest joys of friendship is to have someone to whom one can confide a secret."
Alessandro Manzoni
"Familiar: a person we know well enough to borrow money from him, but not well enough to lend him."
Ambrose Bierce
“It is pleasant to be in the company of people when only friendly inclination and respect induce us to do so; it is painful to seek a meeting with them when you expect services from them: this means stuffing yourself into friendship ”
Jean La Bruyère
"When your friends start complimenting you on how great you look, it's a sure sign that you're getting older."
Mark Twain
"Recognizing talent in your friends is even more difficult than recognizing it in your enemies"
Edmond Goncourt
“There is one old toast, remarkable for its beauty: when you climb to the top of success, may your friend not meet you”
Mark Twain
"Friendship often ends in love, but love rarely ends in friendship"
Charles Colton
“He who has never sought either friendship or love is a thousand times poorer than the one who has lost both of them”
Jean Paul
"To have many friends is to have none"
Erasmus of Rotterdam
“Choose your friend; you cannot be happy alone: happiness is a matter of two"
Pythagoras
“The price of a fortune is known when it is acquired, and the price of a friend is known when it is lost”
Jean San
"Friend: a person who notices everything and forgives us everything - even our virtues"
Adrian Decourcelle
"Better an enemy for nothing than a friend for money"
Karol Bunsch
"A friend who is useless to his friend becomes a stranger to him"
Paul Holbach
“What, in fact, is wrong in the fact that my friend loves himself more than me?”
Francis Bacon
"The meaning of true friendship is that it doubles joy, and divides suffering in half"
Joseph Addison
"In order to live long, get yourself an old wine and an old friend"
Pythagoras
“There is nothing more tender than the correspondence of friends who do not want to meet again”
Marcel Proust
“In friendship, as in love, what brings happiness more often is what we do not know than what we know”
François La Rochefoucauld
“The least noisy, most modest friendship is often the most useful. Therefore, I would always prefer a reserved friend to an overzealous one.”
Joseph Addison
"Friendship is not based on gifts, but on promises"
Georges Armand Masson
“There is nothing more precious than friends; therefore, do not lose the opportunity to acquire them whenever you can"
Francesco Guicciardini
"Who will tell me the truth about me, if not a friend"
Vissarion Belinsky
“In conversations with each other, women imitate the spirit of comradely solidarity and that confidential frankness that they do not allow themselves with men. But behind this semblance of friendship - how much vigilant distrust, and how justified it is, I must admit!
André Maurois
“When friendship becomes love, they merge like two rivers, of which the larger one absorbs the smaller one”
Madeleine Scuderi
“Friendship has changed so much that it allows betrayal, does not need meetings, correspondence, heated conversations, and even allows for the presence of one friend”
Mikhail Zhvanetsky
"Success makes few friends"
Luc Vauvenargue
"Who wants to have more than one friend does not deserve one"
Friedrich Goebbel
“First, take me out of my difficulty, my friend, and then you will read the moralizing”
Jean La Fontaine
"Better to be in darkness than without a friend"
John Chrysostom
"All I need is a room where I can put my hat and a few friends"
Dorothy Parker
“When a friendship suddenly arises between a dog and a cat, then this is nothing but an alliance against the cook”
Stefan Zweig
“It is easy to call a person wise, it is much more difficult to convince his friends of this”
Mark Twain
“It is more profitable to have another among enemies than among friends”
Fedor Dostoevsky
"Sincerity of relationships, truth in communication - that's friendship"
Alexander Suvorov
“I love a friend most of all for his flaws, which you can talk about”
William Gaslitt
"Fake people are more dangerous to have friends than enemies"
Jean Jacques Rousseau
"Service and friendship are two parallel lines: they do not converge"
Alexander Suvorov
"A magnanimous person must have several faults so as not to upset his friends"
Benjamin Franklin
“How sweet are criticisms coming from friendly lips; you believe in them, they make you sad, because there is no doubt that they are correct, but they do not hurt.
Honore Balzac
“Don't tell your friends about their faults against good manners. They will correct mistakes and never forgive you."
Logan Smith
"Friendship achieves the same result as courage, only in a more pleasant way"
Francis Bacon
“People usually call friendship spending time together, mutual assistance in business, exchange of favors, in a word, such relationships where selfishness hopes to gain something”
François La Rochefoucauld
"If a person is on his life path does not make new acquaintances, he soon finds himself lonely "
Samuel Johnson
“To find a friend, you need to close one eye. To keep it, you need to close both "
Norman Douglas
“We need two categories of acquaintances: those to whom you can complain about life, and those to whom you can show off”
Logan Smith
"Love and friendship are mutual echoes: they give as much as they take"
Alexander Herzen
"True friendship does not know envy, and true love does not know coquetry"
François La Rochefoucauld
“I would never have become his friend if I had known him. It's very dangerous to know your own friends well."
Oscar Wilde
"My fame enraged my enemies and annoyed my friends"
Sarah Bernard
"Love requires infinitely less than friendship"
George Nathan
“Sincere friends are few and far between, and there is little demand for them.”
Maria Ebner Eschenbach
“A true friend is the greatest of blessings, and at the same time the blessing that people least think about acquiring”
François La Rochefoucauld
“If you cannot directly, frankly, even sharply tell a friend everything that you think about him, about his actions, or hear from him the same truth about yourself, then you do not truly believe each other, do not understand and do not respect each other. friend"
Ivan Goncharov
"The unfortunate have no friends"
John Dryden
"He who is a good friend himself has good friends"
Niccolo Machiavelli
“There is a lot of talk about how fickle women are in love, but not enough about how consistent they are in friendship.”
Gaston Lewis
“Only those people who can forgive each other for minor shortcomings can be connected with true friendship”
Jean La Bruyère
"An adversary who reveals your mistakes is much more useful than a friend who hides them"
Leonardo da Vinci
“We consider a coward who allowed his friend to be insulted in his presence”
Denis Diderot
"There is little friendship in the world - and the least among equals"
Francis Bacon
"Friendship is love without wings"
George Byron
“I have three kinds of friends: friends who love me, friends who don’t care about me at all, and friends who can’t stand me”
Nicola Chamfort
“I wish you well, therefore I scold you - this is how true friends are always recognized!”
Hans Andersen
“In life, selfless love is more common than true friendship”
Jean La Bruyère
“There are three useful friends and three harmful ones. Useful friends are a direct friend, a sincere friend and a friend who has heard a lot. Harmful friends are a hypocritical friend, an insincere friend, and a talkative friend.
Confucius
“A woman cannot be a good wife who is not and is not able to be a friend to her husband”
Thomas Paine
"Friendship and community are born in people when there is a common enemy"
Percy Shelley
“If a person has a devoted friend, he has, as it were, two lives for the fulfillment of his desires”
Francis Bacon
“What people usually call friendship is, in essence, only an alliance, the purpose of which is the mutual preservation of benefits and the exchange of good offices, the most disinterested friendship is nothing but a deal in which our pride always expects to win something”
François La Rochefoucauld
"If your friends start complimenting you on how young you look, be sure they think you're getting old."
Washington Irving
“Not having a single friend is a misfortune, but one who has no friend will not make an enemy”
George Halifax
“A friend is a person with whom I can be sincere. In his presence, I can think out loud."
Ralph Emerson
"You Can't Have Too Many Friends"
Alexandre Dumas (Father)
“A true friend is with you when you are wrong. When you are right, everyone will be with you."
Mark Twain
“You have found yourself a devoted friend, if, having risen, he did not get to know you”
Jean La Bruyère
“There are no words in the world that can express the difference between loneliness and friendship”
Gilbert Chesterton
"If you make new friends, don't forget the old ones"
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Leave three times more for your friends than for yourself. For yourself, keep at least a grain of the original purity of the heart.
Hong Zicheng
"A true friend is someone whom I would trust in everything that concerns me more than myself"
Michel Montaigne
“Friendship, like love, is a rose with a luxurious color, an intoxicating aroma, but also with prickly thorns”
Vissarion Belinsky
“Friends cannot be impartial and are often even unfair, trying to maintain impartiality”
Friedrich Goebbel
“We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals devouring old friends; others need to renew their audience to re-show their ideal version of their lives."
George Santayana
"My friend is the one to whom I can tell everything"
Vissarion Belinsky
“Lend money to an enemy and you will gain a friend; lend money to a friend and you will lose him"
Benjamin Franklin
“How little friendship would survive if everyone suddenly found out what friends are saying behind his back, although just then they are sincere and impartial”
Blaise Pascal
“You recognize friends in trouble. In the troubles of friends you recognize yourself"
Alexander Kumor
"Friendship is a calm and quiet affection, guided and strengthened by habit, arising from long association and mutual obligations"
David Hume
“People are most useful to do what contributes to the strengthening of friendship”
Benedict Spinoza
“The friends of this world are so afraid to part with the arms of the world that nothing is more difficult for them than not to work”
Aurelius Augustine
“It is better to have a weak person as your enemy than as a friend”
Henry Shaw
"He who is afraid of making enemies will never make true friends"
William Gaslitt
“Before you love your enemies, try to treat your friends a little better.”
Edgar Howe
“In your public relations, avoid making enemies out of friends; try, on the contrary, to turn your enemies into friends."
Pythagoras
“You can’t go far in friendship if friends are not disposed to excuse each other for small shortcomings”
Jean La Bruyère
"There are no friends for a lover"
Stendhal
“Sometimes, in order to lose a friend, an unpaid service is enough: unable to repay a debt, he moves away - the debtor has become an enemy”
Baltasar Gracian y Morales
“There can be no long-term friendship, subordination, comradeship where one does not adapt to the other”
Francesco Guicciardini
“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
“The one who turns out to be a true friend is a real person, he does not remain indebted to society”
Anthony Shaftesbury
"A friend should bear some of the grief of a friend"
Erasmus of Rotterdam
“The first love is so fragrant because it forgets the difference between the sexes, because it is a passionate friendship”
Alexander Herzen
“Friends and conscience are with a person until they are needed”
Gabriel Laub
“Do not entrust your secret to the one who treats you before you know his loyalty and friendship”
John of Damascus
“Friendly frankness is especially dangerous: he told his secrets to another - he became his slave ... So, don’t listen to secrets and don’t tell yourself”
Baltasar Gracian y Morales
“If a friend refuses to lend you $50, they probably know you especially well.”
Lawrence Peter
"If we want to make friends, let's do something for this that requires our time, energy, selfless feelings and consideration for others"
Dale Carnegie
“There are few vices in the world that prevent a person from gaining numerous friends more than too great virtues”
Nicola Chamfort
“A powerless enemy is our best friend; an envious friend is the worst of our enemies"
Petr Chaadaev
"It's not so hard to die for a friend as it is to find a friend worth dying for"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“Give not your right hand to everyone; don't hug everyone; do not press anyone to your heart! What will be left for the worthiest and most amiable, and who will trust the signs of your friendship; who will give them their due price if you squander them indiscriminately ”
Adolf Knigge
“In friends, we notice those shortcomings that can harm them, and in loved ones, those from which we ourselves suffer”
Jean La Bruyère
"Friendship between women is just a non-aggression pact"
Henri Monterlan
"Discussion of the weaknesses and quirks of our mutual friends is great pleasure and the cement of friendship"
William Gaslitt
"The brave are tested in times of trouble, but true friends are in trouble"
John of Damascus
“Low in soul is he who is ashamed of his friendship with people whose shortcomings have become known to everyone”
Luc Vauvenargue
“We are not particularly pleased with our friends if, appreciating our good qualities, they allow themselves to notice our shortcomings as well”
Luc Vauvenargue
"Friendship is the wine of existence, love is a good glass of vodka"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"True happiness lies not in having many friends, but in dignity and freedom of choice"
Ben Johnson
“A dispute even between friends has something rude, hostile and contrary to friendly relations”
Francesco Petrarca
“When friendship begins to weaken and cool, she always resorts to increased politeness”
William Shakespeare
“The greatest feat of friendship is not to show a friend our shortcomings, but to open his eyes to his own”
François La Rochefoucauld
"There is nothing more dangerous than an ignorant friend"
Jean La Fontaine
“You can complain to a stranger about what you can’t complain about to a friend, and to a friend about what you can’t complain to your wife”
Jean Rostand
"A friend in power is a lost friend"
Henry Adams
"Gentleman: a person who is friendly with those who have no friends"
Elbert Hubbard
"For the wounds of love, friendly participation is a true balm"
Thomas Reid
"Friend: a person who knows everything about us and yet loves us"
Elbert Hubbard
"Enemies are punished with a sword, friends are captivated by the soul"
Denis Davydov
“The collapse of all the hopes of a person is pleasant both to his friends and enemies”
François La Rochefoucauld
"A brother may not be a friend, but a friend is always a brother"
Benjamin Franklin
“Some friends are good far away, others close; one who is not very suitable for conversation is excellent in correspondence. Distance smooths out the flaws that are unbearable in close communication.
Baltasar Gracian y Morales
"Friendship is the art of distance, while love is the art of intimacy"
Sigmund Graff
"Nature also teaches animals to know their friends"
William Shakespeare
"It's easier to forgive an enemy than a friend"
William Blake
"Of two friends, only one is a friend of the other"
Jean Carr
“To die for a friend under some exceptional circumstances is less sublime than daily and secretly sacrificing oneself for him”
Stendhal
“Never boast of the judgment of your friends. Truly is that testimony which is uttered in a hostile voice.”
Hieronymus Stridonsky
"There are no debtors or benefactors in friendship"
Romain Rolland
"The heart of our friends is often more impenetrable than the heart of our enemies"
Paul Valery
“For high friendship, one condition is necessary - the ability to do without it”
Ralph Emerson
“Friendship can do without love; love without friendship is not
Vasily Klyuchevsky
“Friendship warms the soul, a dress warms the body, and the sun and the stove warm the air”
Kozma Prutkov
“People on earth should be friends ... I don’t think that you can make all people love each other, but I would like to destroy the hatred between people”
Isaac Asimov
"What is friendship? The word, the illusion that enchants us, the shadow that follows happiness and disappears in hours of misfortune!
Oliver Goldsmith
“If the spouses love each other for many years, then falling in love imperceptibly turns into a sweet habit and ardent passion is replaced by tender friendship”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
“Borrowing five pounds from a friend and not being able to pay, I thereby sell it for five pounds, and this is unprofitable”
George Shaw
“As rare as true love is, true friendship is even rarer.”
François La Rochefoucauld
“Choose your enemies carefully. But also friends, too, because they will become enemies.
Henri Monterlan
“The basis of friendly affection is the benefits that friends expect to receive from each other. Deprive them of these benefits - and friendship will cease to exist.
Paul Holbach
"Crazy, who in wealth forgets a friend"
Gregory the Theologian
“Equality of position binds hearts. But there can be no lasting friendship between the rich and the poor because of the inequality between wealth and poverty.
Miguel Saavedra
“Beware of a woman who has many girlfriends, for they will constantly seek to destroy your marriage union, your “we”. However, one friend is even worse: in the future she may become your wife.
Cyril Connolly
“As in friendship, so in enmity put certain boundaries your gullibility and hostility: let the first not come to the point of becoming dangerous, and the second - irreconcilable "
Philip Chesterfield
“To be left without friends is the worst, after poverty, misfortune”
Daniel Defoe
"Friendship is not such a miserable light to go out in separation"
Johann Schiller
"Women give to friendship only what they borrow from love"
Nicola Chamfort
"The eyes of friendship are rarely wrong"
Voltaire
“For friendship, any burden is light. The universe is eternal, meetings with friends are brief"
Nikolai Lobachevsky
“We willingly forgive our friends for shortcomings that do not hurt us”
François La Rochefoucauld
"He who does good to a friend does good to himself"
Erasmus of Rotterdam
“The friendship of vicious people is unreliable; it lasts only as long as it serves for mutual benefit.
Oliver Goldsmith
"Without friendship, no relationship between people has value"
Socrates
"Everyone wants to have a friend, but no one wants to be a friend"
Jean Carr
“He who always thinks only of enemies will find them, but will destroy his friends”
Milorad Pavic
"A true gentleman is never a friend of the heart"
Edmund Burke
“Don’t be cheeky with friends, otherwise you will have only nonentities among your friends”
Hong Zicheng
“The reason why we are so fickle in friendship is that it is difficult to know the properties of a person’s soul and it is easy to know the properties of the mind”
François La Rochefoucauld
“In true friendship there is a charm that is incomprehensible to ordinary people”
Jean La Bruyère
“Long friendship is possible only if each of the friends respects his comrade so much that he does not require anything from him”
Cyril Connolly
"I don't know anything equal to true friendship smart person What a rare gem this is
Tobias Smollett
“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
“Being deceived by friends, we can indifferently accept the manifestations of their friendship, but we must sympathize with them in their misfortunes”
François La Rochefoucauld
"True friendship matures slowly and only flourishes where people have really proved it to each other"
Philip Chesterfield
“Friendship is not fastened with the mind - it is easily terminated by stupidity”
William Shakespeare
“Having a talent is not enough: you also need to have your permission for it, isn't it? my friends?"
Friedrich Nietzsche
“You will make more friends in two months by being interested in other people than you would make in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
Dale Carnegie
“It is not true that we lack friendship and kindness; it is friendship and kindness that lacks us"
Marcel Juandeau
“Do not rush to choose friends, change them - even more so”
Benjamin Franklin
"In the hustle and bustle of this world, friendship is the only thing that matters in personal life"
Karl Marx
"A treacherous friend is the most dangerous enemy"
Henry Fielding
"A sure way to judge a man's character and mind by his choice of books and friends"
Claude-Adrian Helvetius
“Friendship is such a holy, sweet, lasting and constant feeling that it can be kept for life, unless, of course, you try to ask for a loan”
Mark Twain
“Preferring death for the fatherland, for friends in order to avoid vice, people acquire the highest virtue and benefit others”
Pietro Pomponazzi
“What happiness is a friendship like the one that exists between us. You know that I don’t value any relationship so highly.”
Karl Marx
"True friendship is one of those things that, like giant sea serpents, is not known whether they are fictional or exist somewhere"
Arthur Schopenhauer
“She is such a good friend that she would throw all her friends into the water to have the pleasure of getting them out of there.”
Anna Steel
"True friendship is true and courageous"
Johann Schiller
“He who seeks friends is worthy of finding them; who has no friends, he never looked for them "
Gotthold Lessing
"A friend is the person who is most trusted when he speaks badly of us"
Jean Rostand
"Never exaggerate the stupidity of enemies and the loyalty of friends..."
Mikhail Zhvanetsky
"I defeat my enemies by turning them into friends"
Abraham Lincoln
“Acquaintances are people who, just in case, call you a fool. Good friends can already tell a bad joke about you. Friends are those who really know a few real nasty things about you.
Don Aminado
“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 Ogarev
“Diligently avoid all friendship with fools and rogues, if the word friendship is generally applicable in relations with such people”
Philip Chesterfield
“Friendship between two politicians is impossible, at least if they belong to the same party”
Edouard Herriot
"Friendship: a duet in which, as a rule, only one sings"
Adrian Decourcelle
“To indulge the weaknesses of your friends, turn a blind eye to their shortcomings, admire their vices as if they were virtues, what could be closer to stupidity?”
Erasmus of Rotterdam
“Not noticing the cooling of people means little appreciation of their friendship”
François La Rochefoucauld
"Vows in love prove her fickleness: true friendship does not pronounce them"
Pierre Buast
"People with an ardent character are rarely constant in friendship"
Luc Vauvenargue
"Love without reverence and delight is only friendship"
George Sand
“If you want to make enemies, surpass others; if you want to make friends, let yourself be surpassed"
Charles Colton
“Most women are so indifferent to friendship because it seems to them insipid in comparison with love”
François La Rochefoucauld
"The inferiority of our friends gives us considerable pleasure"
Philip Chesterfield
"Friendship between a man and a woman is very weak at nightfall"
Otto Bismarck
“If my friends are crooked, I look at them in profile”
Joseph Joubert
“It would be good for a person to examine himself, how much he costs for friends, and that he tries to be as expensive as possible”
Socrates
“No worldly blessings will be pleasant to us if we use them alone, without sharing them with friends”
Erasmus of Rotterdam
“Marital love multiplies the human race, friendly love improves it, and immoral corrupts and humiliates”
Francis Bacon
“It is more difficult to fulfill the obligations of friendship than to be delighted with them”
Gotthold Lessing
“A friendship that does not withstand the touch of naked truth is not worth regretting. That's where she's going."
Dmitry Pisarev
“The worst enemies are from former friends: they hit your weaknesses, they only follow them, in the most vulnerable place”
Baltasar Gracian y Morales
“Never judge a man by his friends. With Judas they were impeccable.”
Paul Valery
“Where there is no complete frankness, complete power of attorney, where even a little bit of it is hidden, there is not and cannot be friendship”
Vissarion Belinsky
"Where friendship weakens, ceremonial politeness strengthens"
William Shakespeare
"Only the hand of a friend can tear the thorns out of the heart"
Claude-Adrian Helvetius
“Friendship needs time, love needs a place”
Mikhail Zadornov
"He who is deprived of sincere friends is truly lonely"
Francis Bacon
“Removes friends from us either their happiness when they no longer need us, or our misfortune when we need them too much”
Jean San
"Where equality ends, there can be no friendship"
Daniel Ober
“You should not meet your friends before fame comes to them”
Jules Renard
"Whoever has friends who hate each other deserves their common hatred"
Vasily Klyuchevsky
“I am very afraid that the one who, from the first acquaintance, treats me as if we had been friends for twenty years, would treat me twenty years later as a stranger, if I ask him for an important service”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
"There is no greater pleasure in the world than a friendly conversation"
John of Damascus
“First of all, you owe your homeland, as well as your friends, the truth”
Petr Chaadaev
“If you are overzealous in your service, you will lose the favor of the sovereign. If you are overly cordial in friendship, you will lose the favor of friends.
Confucius
“It is more shameful not to trust friends than to be deceived by them”
François La Rochefoucauld
"The best way to know and destroy the enemy is to become his friend"
Paulo Coelho
“The only sincere and lasting friendship is that which exists between a man and a woman, because this is the only affection free from any rivalry”
Auguste Comte
"The friendship of two saints does more evil than the open enmity of ten villains"
Honore Balzac
“If a friend reproaches you for any shortcoming, always think that he has not told you everything yet”
Thomas Fuller
“Your enemy and your friend are working together to strike you in the heart: one says nasty things about you, the other gives you his words”
Mark Twain
"Don't tell your friend what your enemy shouldn't know"
Arthur Schopenhauer
"A wise man benefits more from enemies than a fool from friends"
Baltasar Gracian y Morales
“He who, for his own benefit, would let down a friend, has no right to friendship”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
"In the building of human happiness, friendship builds walls, and love forms a dome"
Kozma Prutkov
“Friends are known in trouble, if, of course, they can be found at the same time”
Mikhail Zhvanetsky
"The advice of a friend is the best bulwark against enemies"
William Shakespeare
“A wife should not make her own friends. Enough with her and her husband's friends "
Plutarch
“One friend in a lifetime is a lot; two is a set; three - hardly possible"
Henry Adams
“Truly, there is nothing better in life than the help of a friend and mutual joy”
John of Damascus
“A big soul is never alone. No matter how fate takes away friends from her, she, in the end, always creates them for herself.
Romain Rolland
"It's hard to tell from true friendship those relationships that we make in the name of love"
Jean La Bruyère
"The most beautiful gift given 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 worst loneliness is not having true friends"
Francis Bacon
"Fulfilling the duties of friendship is somewhat more difficult than admiring it"
Gotthold Lessing
“On the road and in prison, friendship is always born and a person’s abilities are more clearly manifested”
Lope Vega
"Affection can do without reciprocity, but friendship never"
Jean Jacques Rousseau
"A friend should bear the shortcomings of a friend"
William Shakespeare
Friendship is the wine of existence, love is a good glass of vodka.
E.D. Bulwer-Lytton
Friendship is a harbor that a person strives for, it brings joy and, it is rest in this life and the beginning of heavenly life.
T. Tasso
Friendship is the only passion that does not weaken over the years.
Marchioness Dudeffan
Friendship is nothing but accompanied mutual love and favor unanimity in all human and divine affairs, in comparison with which I do not know what is better, except, perhaps, wisdom, granted to man by the immortal gods.
Cicero
Friendship is a reflection of a person's personal dignity on other people.
R. Emerson
Friendship is a ship capable of carrying two in good weather, and only one in bad weather.
A. Beers
Friendship can do without love; love without friendship is not.
V. Klyuchevsky
Friendship, like love, is a rose with a luxurious color, an intoxicating aroma, but also with prickly thorns.
V. Belinsky
Friendship is when you can, for no reason at all, come to a person and settle with him.
David Samoilov
Friendship is one of the highest ornaments of human life. Its beneficial effect on a person is like love.
G. Markov
Friendship is, first of all, sincerity, it is criticism of the mistakes of a comrade. Friends should be the first to give harsh criticism so that a friend can correct his mistake.
N. Ostrovsky
Friendship in the highest and proper sense is nothing but a feeling that arises from mutual affection. It appears in the case when each of the two wants the loved one and he himself to be equally prosperous.
Alkina
The friendship of two women is always a conspiracy against the third.
A. Corr
The friendship of two saints does more evil than the open enmity of ten villains.
O. de Balzac
Friendship for a woman is a man who loved her and told her about it too late.
F. Croisset
Friendship between writers looks like love, if not by its ardor, then by envy.
Riga
Without friendship, no communication between people has value.
In happiness it is easy to find a friend, in misfortune it is extremely difficult.
Democritus
Everything should be shared between friends.
Euripides
The friendship of one reasonable person is more precious than the friendship of all unreasonable ones.
Democritus
Unity creates friendship.
Democritus
Those who love to blame others are incapable of friendship.
Democritus
Friends have everything in common, and friendship is equality.
Pythagoras of Samos
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 fraternal closeness of like-minded people is stronger than any walls.
Antisthenes of Athens
One of the first duties of friendship is to forestall the requests of friends.
Isocrates
Stretching out your hand to friends, do not clench your fingers into a fist.
Diogenes of Sinop
True is the ancient proverb that equality creates friendship.
Plato
Close friendship happens among people who are similar to each other.
Plato
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
Friendship is content with the possible, without demanding what is due.
Aristotle
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 the most necessary thing for life, since no one wants to live without friends, even if he had all the other benefits.
Aristotle
The enjoyment of communication is the main sign of friendship.
Aristotle
Many are treats of friends, not friendship.
Menander
Of all that wisdom brings to itself for the happiness of a lifetime, the most important is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
There is nothing better and more pleasant in the world than friendship; excluding friendship from life is like depriving the world of sunshine.
Cicero Mark Tullius
In general, friendship can be judged only in relation to people of mature age and a mature soul.
Cicero Mark Tullius
A friend is like a second "I".
Cicero Mark Tullius
Friendship can be strong only with the maturity of the mind and age.
Cicero Mark Tullius
Friendship can unite only worthy people.
Cicero Mark Tullius
Friendship penetrates the lives of all people, but in order to maintain it, sometimes it is necessary to endure grievances.
Cicero Mark Tullius
True friendship must be frank and free from pretense and assent.
Cicero Mark Tullius
A true friend must 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 Mark Tullius
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 Mark Tullius
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 Mark Tullius
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
As long as you are happy, you have many friends; when times are dark, you are left alone.
Ovid
There are many friends; friendship is rare.
Phaedrus
The name "friend" sounds everyday, but friendly fidelity is rare.
Phaedrus
Without a comrade, no happiness pleases.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)
Why am I getting a friend? To have someone to die for.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)
Friendship ends where distrust begins.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)
If you want to live peacefully, without storm,
The sorrows of life, not knowing until late old age, -
Do not look for a friend for yourself and do not call yourself a friend to anyone:
You will taste less joys, less grief.
Martial Mark Valery
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
You can't get a true friend with money.
Unknown author
The question arises whether it is ever possible to prefer new friends to old ones.
Unknown author
Share your thoughts with a friend.
Unknown author
A friend is the greatest wealth in life.
Unknown author
A friend is known by love, disposition, speeches, deeds.
Unknown author
Test a friend, but love a tried one.
Unknown author
A friend cannot be offended even by a joke.
Unknown author
Iron sharpens iron, and a man refines his friend's gaze.
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
Do not frequently enter your friend's house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.
Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon
Whoever associates with the wise will be wise, but whoever associates with fools will become corrupt.
Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon
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
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
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
There is no greater love than if a man lays down his life for his friends. New Testament. Gospel of John
It is better to be in darkness than without a friend.
John Chrysostom
Better hitting friends than kissing enemies.
John Chrysostom
Not more joy than to see friends, there is no bitterer grief than separation from friends.
Rudaki
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 better or a brother?" - "Brother, when he is a friend, it is better."
Unsur al-Maali
It is better for a man to be without a brother than without friends.
Unsur al-Maali
Do not consider friends of the cup as friends, for they are friends of your cup, and not your friends.
Unsur al-Maali
A foolish friend out of friendship will do what a hundred reasonable enemies will not do out of enmity.
Unsur al-Maali
Wash your hands, brother, from that friend who associates with your enemies.
Unsur al-Maali
Everything will pass - and the grain of hope will not rise,
All that you have accumulated will be lost for a penny.
If you do not share in time with a friend -
All your property will go to the enemy.
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
Sincere friendship is based on the proximity of minds and secret laws, and not on visible signs.
As-Samarkandi
Do not shun a friend because of a little joke and do not be offended, for this is a sign of stupidity.
As-Samarkandi
A friend is a mirror for a friend, there is no mirror brighter!
Auhad al-Din Anwari
Dragging your days without a friend is the worst of troubles.
The soul is worthy of pity, which has no friend.
Nizami Ganjavi
Indulge loyal friends, do not drive them for their actions.
How will the vessel that you have broken into shards water you?
Nizami Ganjavi
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
He who does not seek friends for himself is his own enemy.
Shota Rustaveli
A wise friend will not abandon a friend, despite all the hardships.
Shota Rustaveli
It is necessary for a friend for the sake of a friend not to be afraid of trials,
To respond heart to heart and pave the way with love.
Shota Rustaveli
A desecration of friendship - This is a discord with wisdom.
Shota Rustaveli
Consider the person who removes stones and thorns from your path as a true friend.
Saadi
Your true friend who will show you the way
All obstacles will help to pass.
Flatterers beware of being friends.
That true friend is yours who is honest and direct.
Saadi
Attract friends to you by good deeds. This is the meaning of true friendship.
Abu'l-Faraj
But you distinguish between the shell and the core. Introducing yourself as a friend is not so smart.
Hisrav Dehlavi
What is alive, who did not know the friendship of the saint?
It is like an empty pearl.
Alisher Navoi
Traveler, if you are on the right path,
There will be a faithful friend to help you on that path.
Muhammad Fizuli
A comrade is a support in trouble, a doctor during an illness, he is the one who sacrifices himself in a moment of mortal danger.
Sulkhan Orbeliani
A comrade is a high wall, an indestructible stronghold, a fortress reliably supplied with water.
Sulkhan Orbeliani
Don't be cheeky with your friends, otherwise your friends will be nothing but nonentities.
Hong Zicheng
Friendship, which is given for money, and not acquired by the greatness and nobility of the soul, can be bought, but cannot be kept.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Whoever is a good friend, he also has good friends.
Niccolo Machiavelli
A friend must bear some of the friend's grief.
Erasmus of Rotterdam
If you make new friends, don't forget the old ones.
Erasmus of Rotterdam
To have many friends is to have none.
Erasmus of Rotterdam
No worldly blessings will be pleasant to us if we use them alone, not sharing them with friends.
Erasmus of Rotterdam
There can be no long-term friendship, subordination, comradeship where one does not adapt to the other.
Francesco Guicciardini
There is nothing more precious than friends; lose no opportunity, therefore, to acquire them whenever you can.
Francesco Guicciardini
A friend should be like blood flowing immediately to a wound, without waiting to be attracted.
Antonio Perez
In friendship there are no calculations and considerations, except for itself.
Michel de Montaigne
True friend everywhere
Faithful, in happiness and trouble;
Your sadness worries him
You don't sleep - he can't sleep
And in everything, without distant words,
He is ready to help you.
Yes, the actions are dissimilar
Faithful friend and flatterer worthless.
William Shakespeare
Friendship is not fastened with the mind - it is easily terminated by stupidity.
William Shakespeare
Only a true friend can see his friend's weaknesses.
William Shakespeare
There is little friendship in the world - and least of all among equals.
Francis Bacon
Friendship achieves the same result as courage, only in a more pleasant way.
Francis Bacon
Friendship doubles the joys and cuts the sorrows in half.
Francis Bacon
Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon
If a person has a devoted friend, he has, as it were, two lives.
not for the fulfillment of their desires.
Francis Bacon
What, in fact, is wrong in the fact that my friend loves himself more than me?
Francis Bacon
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
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
A man is judged by his friends.
Baltasar Gracian y Morales
When we lose a true friend, Nothing can heal the mental illness.
Pierre Corneille
There is nothing more dangerous than an ignorant friend.
Jean de La Fontaine
When friendship becomes love, they merge like two rivers, of which the larger one absorbs the smaller one.
Madeleine de Scudery
If a friend reproaches you for any shortcoming, always think that he has not yet told you everything.
Thomas Fuller
Being deceived by friends, we may be indifferent to the manifestations of their friendship, but we must sympathize with them in their misfortunes.
François de La Rochefoucauld
In friendship, as in love, what brings happiness more often is what we do not know than what we know.
François de La Rochefoucauld
As rare as true love is, true friendship is even rarer.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The greatest feat of friendship is not to show a friend our shortcomings, but to open his eyes to his own.
François de La Rochefoucauld
A true friend is the greatest of blessings, and at the same time that blessing, the acquisition of which is least thought of.
François de La Rochefoucauld
True friendship does not know envy, and true love does not know coquetry.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Not to notice the cooling of people means little appreciation of their friendship.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The most beautiful gift given to people after wisdom is friendship.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The inferiority of our friends gives us no little pleasure.
True friendship matures slowly and blossoms only where people have really proved it to each other.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Diligently avoid all friendship with fools and rogues, if the word "friendship" is generally applicable in relations with such people.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
All the honors of this world are not worth one good friend.
Voltaire
The eyes of friendship are rarely wrong.
Voltaire
A brother may not be a friend, but a friend is always a brother.
Benjamin Franklin
Choose a friend slowly, even less hurry to change him.
Benjamin Franklin
Friendship is a calm and quiet affection, guided and strengthened by habit, which arises from long association and mutual commitment.
David Hume
Affection can do without reciprocity, but friendship never.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
He who, for his own benefit, would let down a friend, has no right to friendship.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
My friendship is too circumspect if my friend's danger does not make me forget my own danger.
Denis Diderot
Only the hand of a friend can tear the thorns out of the heart.
Claude Adrian Helvetius
... I do not know anything equivalent to the genuine friendship of an intelligent person - what a rare gem it is.
Tobias George Smollett
A friend who is useless to his friend becomes a stranger to him.
Paul Henri Holbach
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
The friendship of vicious people is unreliable; it lasts only as long as it serves mutual benefit.
Oliver Goldsmith
What is friendship? The word, the illusion that enchants us, the shadow that follows happiness and disappears in hours of misfortune!
Oliver Goldsmith
Fulfilling the duties of friendship is somewhat more difficult than admiring it.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Whoever seeks friends is worthy of finding them; whoever has no friends never looked for them.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
It is more difficult to fulfill the obligations of friendship than to be delighted with them.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
A true gentleman is never a friend of the heart.
Edmund Burke
Perhaps, in order to fully appreciate friendship, one must first experience love.
Nicola Sebastian Chamfort
In the world, we have three kinds of friends: some love us, others hate us, others simply do not remember.
Nicola Sebastian Chamfort
Human friendship in most cases sprouts with many prickly "ifs" and "buts" and eventually turns into ordinary friendships that are kept only thanks to omissions.
Nicola Sebastian Chamfort
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 Gippel
Strong friendship is our strength
Friendship glory and praise.
Robert Berne
Friendship is love without wings.
George Noel Gordon Byron
It's not so hard to die for a friend as it is to find a friend worth dying for.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Never enter into friendship with a person whom you cannot respect.
Charles Darwin
He who boasts that he has made many friends has never had a single friend.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We love friends for their shortcomings.
William Hazlitt
Friendship and community are born in people when there is a common enemy.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Friendship between a man and a woman is very weak at nightfall.
Otto von Schönhausen Bismarck
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.
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
In the hustle and bustle of this world, friendship is the only thing that matters in personal life...
Karl Marx
... What happiness - friendship, similar to the one that exists between us. You know that I do not value any relationship so highly.
Karl Marx
I enter into friendship with very few, but I cherish it.
Karl Marx
Friendship is not such a miserable light to go out in separation.
Johann Friedrich Schiller
True friendship is true and courageous.
Johann Friedrich Schiller
Friendship is based on mutual benefit, on common interests; but as soon as interests clash, friendship is terminated: look for it in the clouds.
Arthur Schopenhauer
True friendship is one of those things that, like giant sea serpents, is unknown whether they are fictional or exist somewhere.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Don't tell your friend what your enemy shouldn't know.
Arthur Schopenhauer
For friendship, any burden is easy. The universe is eternal, meetings with friends are brief.
Nikolay Ivanovich Lobachevsky
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
Such a friendship, which does not withstand the touch of naked truth, is not worth regretting. That's where she belongs.
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev
Friendship warms the soul, a dress warms the body, and the sun and the stove warm the air.
Kozma Prutkov
Hiding the truth from friends, to whom will you open up?
Kozma Prutkov
Everyone in the world has enemies, But save us from friends, O God!
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
No muses, no labors, no joys of leisure,
Nothing can replace a single friend.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
We are similar in hearts; he's just me different:
I share grief with him, he shares joy with me.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
Be sincere with your friends, moderate in your needs and disinterested in your actions.
Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov
Sincerity of relations, truth in communication - that's friendship.
Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov
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
For high friendship, one condition is necessary - the ability to do without it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is a person with whom I can be sincere. In his presence, I can think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to find a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't have too many friends.
Alexandre Dumas (father)
If my friends are crooked, I look at them in profile.
Joseph Joubert
Everyone wants to have a friend, but no one wants to be a friend.
Alphonse Jean Carr
The only sincere and lasting friendship is between a man and a woman, because this is the only affection, from all rivalry.
Auguste Comte
Do not try to embellish yourself for a friend: for the arrow and striving towards the Superman must be for him.
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
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
They say that friends are known in misfortune, but in my opinion, they are also known in happiness.
Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov
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
Nothing can inspire and help people like friendship.
Ba Jin
Friendship is a delicate flower. One careless touch - and the flower withered.
Sun Li
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
You can never do too much for a devoted friend.
Henrik Ibsen
Do not judge a person only by his friends. Remember that Judas' friends were impeccable.
Ernest Hemingway
It's hard without a friend when he's lost. But it is also difficult with a friend when he is not faithful.
Aibek
Women, although they attach great importance to friendship, forget about it; men treat her incredulously, but jealously.
Paul Charles Joseph Bourget
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
It is wise to pour the oil of delicate politeness on the wheel of friendship.
Gabrielle Sidonie Colette
True friendship is precisely chosen kinship.
Ernest Wilfried Aeguwe
Friends do not wish us unhappiness, but they find that we are "already so happy."
Aui Legendre
Fellowship and friendship are signs of a real reconciliation with one's gender role and a real balance between the sexes.
Alfred Adler
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
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
A friend is someone who, whenever you need him, knows about it.
Jules Renard
There are no debtors or benefactors in friendship.
Romain Rouyan
Friends are there to help each other.
Romain Rolland
With friends, misunderstandings are never serious until a third person comes between them.
Romain Rolland
Comrades are only those who, holding on to one rope, climb the mountain peak with common efforts and in this find their closeness.
Friendship is a golden thread that unites the hearts of the whole world. \ John Evelyn
In wealth, friends are with us; in trouble, we are with them. \ John Charton Collins
A good friend can tell you what's going on with you right now. True, a minute after that, he may not seem so good to you ... \ Arthur Brisbane
An old friend will help you move. And a good friend will help transport the dead. \ Jim Hayes
Good friends, good books, and a sleeping conscience are all components of an ideal life. \ Mark Twain
It may rain heavily outside, but your friendly smile will put me at ease. I am very glad that you are my friend. And I know that our friendship will never end. \ Robert Alan
Don't walk ahead of me - I may not keep up with you, and don't follow me, I may lead to the wrong place, just walk next to me and be my friend. \ Albert Camus
My best friends are not as popular and famous in the world as Osama or Obama, but they are definitely the greatest people in my life. \ Savio Dsilva
We are all travelers in the jungles of this world, and the best thing we can find during our wanderings is an honest friend. \ Robert Louis Stevenson
Business, business, career can bring money, but not friendship. \ Jane Austen
Friends are relatives that you acquire yourself! \ Estache Desho
Others: people who borrow books from me. \ Edwin Arlington
We Englishmen have succeeded in forgiving our enemies, and are therefore relieved of the obligation to love our friends. \ James
Love is blind, and friendship just closes its eyes.
Men treat friendship like a soccer ball, and it doesn't fall apart. And the women treat it like glass, and it shatters into pieces. \ Ann Morrow Lindbergh
The only good reason to have a small circle of friends is that three out of four killers will know their victim well. \ George Carlin
Friendship. This is a ship that can carry two in fine weather and only one in bad weather. \ Abmroz Byers
I have a lot of best friends. And some of them I hardly know. \ Archie Bunker
It takes a very long time to raise one friend. \ John Leonard
Only a true friend will tell you that your face is dirty when it's really dirty.
The main privilege of friendship is that you can talk nonsense and it will be respected. \ Charles Lamb
Show me a brilliant case of platonic friendship and it will be two old or very modest faces. \ Austin O'Malley
Friendship provides you with round-the-clock full employment if you are really friends with someone. Therefore, you cannot have many good friends - you simply do not have enough time and energy for all of them. \ Truman Capote
Loyalty is an empty phrase without friendship. \ Ovid
The court is always full of people and few friends. \ Seneca.
As long as luck is on your side, you will see the faces of your friends. \ Petronius
Be, like most, rich for yourself and poor for your friends. \ Juvenal
The flattery of these days breeds friends, but the truth only causes disgust. \ Terence
I am my own best friend. \ Terence
After seventy, life is like a war. All your friends have already gone or are leaving, and we live among death and dying, as on a battlefield. \ Muriel Spark
And with a friend and an enemy, you must be good!
Who by nature is kind, you will not find malice in him.
Hurt a friend - you make an enemy,
Embrace the enemy - you will find a friend.
Omar Khayyam
Without true friendship, life is nothing.
Cicero
There is nothing better and more pleasant in the world than friendship; excluding friendship from life is like depriving the world of sunshine.
Cicero
Affection can do without reciprocity, but friendship never.
Russo J.
Happiness has never placed a man on such a height that he does not need a friend.
Seneca
Know the measure should be in everything, everywhere. It is necessary to know the measure in friendship and enmity.
Saadi
Your true friend, who will point out all obstacles in the way and help you pass. Flatterers beware of being friends. That true friend is yours who is honest and direct.
Saadi
We use neither water nor fire as often as friendship.
Cicero
True friend everywhere
Faithful, in happiness and trouble;
Your sadness worries him, You do not sleep - he cannot sleep,
And in everything, without distant words,
He is ready to help you.
Yes, the actions are dissimilar
Faithful friend and flatterer worthless.
Shakespeare W.
To have common desires and common aversions is precisely what lasting friendship consists of.
Sallust
In face-to-face conversations between close friends the wisest people very often they make very weak judgments, because talking with a friend is the same as thinking aloud.
Addison D.
They look for a friend for a long time, they find it with difficulty and it is difficult to keep him.
Publius
What people usually call friendship is, in essence, only an alliance, the purpose of which is the mutual preservation of benefits and the exchange of good offices; The most disinterested friendship is nothing but a deal in which our self-esteem always expects to win something.
La Rochefoucauld
We love friends for their shortcomings.
Hazlitt W.
In friendship there are no other calculations and considerations, except for itself.
Montaigne M.
Equality of rights is not that everyone enjoys them, but that they are granted to everyone.
There is no greater joy than seeing friends
There is no bitterer grief than separation from friends.
Rudaki
Friends are made in need.
Petronius
If my friend is friends with my enemy, then I should not associate with a friend. Beware of sugar that is mixed with poison, beware of the fly that sat on a dead snake.
Ibn Sina
Make friends with the smart, for a friend is a fool Sometimes more dangerous than a smart enemy.
Rumi
There is no greater joy in this world
Than the contemplation of relatives and friends.
There is no more painful pain on earth,
Than to be with glorious friends in separation.
Rudaki
It's not about who you were born from, but who you hang out with.
Cervantes
Misunderstanding makes enemies out of friends.
Feuchtwanger L.
Where things are shaken, there are friends at the door.
Petronius
Only a true friend can tolerate his friend's weaknesses.
Shakespeare W.
The friendship that ended never actually began.
Publius
It is better to refuse a sharp word than a friend.
Quintilian
Don't be cheeky with your friends, otherwise your friends will be nothing but nonentities.
Hong Zicheng
That true friend is yours who is honest and direct.
Saadi
Everyone in the world has enemies
But save us from friends, God!
Pushkin A. S.
In trouble you will know a friend.
Petronius
Only the hand of a friend can tear the thorns out of the heart.
Helvetius K.
With whom you lead, from that you will gain.
Seneca
Everything will pass - and the grain of hope will not rise,
All that you have accumulated will be lost for a penny.
If you do not share in time with a friend -
All your property will go to the enemy.
Omar Khayyam
Remember, friend, it's harder to find
Friend than girlfriend.
Lope de Vega
There can be no friendship between master and slave.
Curtius
Whoever is a friend, I do not consider him a friend.
Molière
One enemy is many, a thousand friends are few.
Rudaki
Service and friendship are two parallel lines: they do not converge.
Suvorov A.V.
Only in the twilight of life does the luminary of friendship shine brightly; the brilliance of happiness darkens its light.
Bacon F.
There are few fit to be good friends, and even fewer for those who do not know how to select.
Gracian y Morales
A friend must bear some of the friend's grief.
Erasmus of Rotterdam
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.
Rustaveli Sh.
Be sincere with your friends, moderate in your needs and disinterested in your actions.
Suvorov A.V.
Never enter into friendship with a person whom you cannot respect.
Darwin Ch.
How few friends would remain friends if they could fully know each other's thoughts.
Lichtenberg G.
There is nothing more precious than friends; lose no opportunity, therefore, to acquire them whenever you can.
Guicciardini F.
The choice of friends is followed by the choice of society. Make every effort to associate with those who are above you. It will lift you up, while interacting with people is more low level will force you to descend, for as the society in which you are, such is you yourself.
Chesterfield F.
There are three kinds of friends: friends who love you, friends who don't care about you, and friends who hate you.
Chamfort
Friendship is not such a miserable light to go out in separation.
Schiller F.
It is necessary for a friend for the sake of a friend not to be afraid of trials,
To respond heart to heart and pave the way with love.
Rustaveli Sh.
Since solitude and life without friends are full of intrigue and fear, the mind itself advises to acquire friendship.
Cicero
When the paths are not the same, they do not make plans together.
Confucius
Alien superiority view
We are annoyed and angry,
And friendship is only then lovely,
When comparison with a friend is flattering.
Swift D.
If it is commendable to do good to friends, then there is no shame in accepting help from friends.
Plutarch
Time will reveal a friend, like gold - fire.
Menander
An indispensable condition of friendship is not to make or fulfill demands against the spirit of honor.
Cicero
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.
Tasso T.
An abuse of friendship is a discord with wisdom.
Rustaveli Sh.
Friendship, which is given for money, and not acquired by the greatness and nobility of the soul, can be bought, but cannot be kept.
Machiavelli N.
In general, friendship can be judged only in relation to people of mature age and a mature soul.
Cicero
When the state has declined, then friends begin to scatter.
Plautus
If you want to live peacefully, without storm,
The sorrows of life, not knowing until late old age, -
Do not look for a friend for yourself and do not call yourself a friend to anyone:
You will taste less joys, less grief.
Martial
Friendship ends where distrust begins.
Seneca
It is better for a man to be without a brother than without friends.
Kay Kavus
Enemies always tell the truth, friends never.
Cicero
Friendship can be strong only with the maturity of the mind and age.
Cicero
Friendship is a calm and quiet affection, guided and strengthened by habit, which arises from long association and mutual commitment.
Yum D.
Fulfilling the duties of friendship is somewhat more difficult than admiring it.
Lessing
Dragging out your days without a friend is the worst of troubles.
The soul is worthy of pity, which has no friend.
Nizami
It would be good for a person to examine himself, how much he costs for friends, and that he tries to be as expensive as possible.
Socrates
Friendship penetrates the lives of all people, but in order to maintain it, sometimes it is necessary to endure grievances.
Cicero
In order to acquire the favor of friends and acquaintances in worldly relations with them, one should evaluate their merits rendered to us higher than they themselves do; on the contrary, our favors to friends must be considered less than our friends and acquaintances believe.
Plato
Sincere friendship is based on the proximity of minds and secret laws, and not on visible signs.
As-Samarkandi
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
Fake people are more dangerous to have as friends than as enemies.
Russo J.
Whoever seeks friends is worthy of finding them; whoever has no friends never looked for them.
Lessing
There is no excuse for wrongdoing, even if you do it for a friend.
Cicero
Many are treats of friends, not friendship.
Menander
How many different benefits friendship combines! Wherever you turn, she is at your service; it is ubiquitous; it never bothers, it never comes out of place, it gives prosperity a new shine, and the failures that it shares lose their sharpness to a greater extent.
Cicero
As much as someone appreciates himself, so his friends appreciate him.
Cicero
Drinking poison from a golden cup and accepting advice from a treacherous friend are one and the same thing.
Plutarch
Whoever is a good friend, he also has good friends.
Machiavelli N.
Whoever despises everyone is worthy of contempt. A cruel man deserves to be tormented. good people God will give good friends, And whoever is bad with others is worthy of vengeance.
Babur 3.
Enjoying communication is the main sign of friendship.
Aristotle
Only in one case we have nothing to fear from insulting a friend - this is when it comes to telling him the truth and thus proving our loyalty to him.
Cicero
He who is so deaf that he does not even want to hear the truth from a friend is hopeless.
Cicero
No kindness is better than a friend.
Menander
Oh my friends! There are no friends in the world!
Aristotle
He who is afraid of making enemies will never make true friends.
Hazlitt W.
If you went to visit a friend, the sight of his children before you even entered the house will tell you whether you are honored by your friend. If the children meet you joyfully, you can be sure that a friend loves you and you are dear to him. But if his children did not come out to meet you, then your friend does not want to see you. Then - turn around and do not hesitate to return home.
Menander
When you praise your friend, you praise yourself.
Menander
Without friendship, no communication between people has value.
Socrates
A good friend should appear when called for joy, but come without a call when a friend is in distress.
Democritus
One should be ashamed of oneself as much as of other people, and equally not to do bad things, whether it remains unknown to anyone or everyone learns about it. But most should be ashamed of yourself.
Democritus
Do not avoid a friend who is in trouble.
Menander
In strong friendship is our strength, Friendship is glory and praise.
Burns R.
Friendship must be a solid thing, capable of surviving all changes in temperature and all the shocks of that bumpy road along which efficient and decent people make their life journey.
Herzen A. I.
Genuine friendship matures slowly and flourishes where people have really proved it to each other.
Chesterfield F.
Wishing to be faithful, have true friends.
Menander
The person with whom true friends do not stay long has a heavy disposition.
Democritus
There are no debtors or benefactors in friendship.
Rollan R.
How much we do for friends that we would never do for ourselves.
Cicero
True friendship is true and courageous.
Byron D.
Friendship is love without wings.
Byron D.
Having learned a secret from a friend, do not betray it by becoming an enemy: you will not strike an enemy, but friendship.
Democritus
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
Many who appear to be friends are not really friends, and vice versa, some are not. seeming friends actually friends.
Democritus
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.
Nietzsche F.
Success brings few friends.
Vauvenarg
The basis of friendship lies in the complete agreement of will, tastes and opinions.
Cicero
We do not so much need the help of friends as the confidence that we will receive it.
Democritus
Everyone has flaws - some have more, some have less. That is why friendship, help, and communication would be impossible if there were no mutual tolerance between us.
Guicciardini F.
A true friend is known in adversity.
Aesop
Where there is no complete frankness, complete power of attorney, where even a little bit of it is hidden, there is not and cannot be friendship.
Belinsky V. G.
In happiness it is easy to find a friend, in misfortune it is extremely difficult.
Democritus
Friends have everything in common, and friendship is equality.
Pythagoras
Test the temperament of your friends in various ways, especially see how someone is in anger.
Theognis
At the pinnacle of greatness, don't forget that a friend is in trouble.
Schiller F.
Relationships do not create friends, but common interests.
Democritus
Hurry to friends rather in misfortune than in happiness.
Chilon
Friends in happy circumstances should appear only by invitation, and in adversity - without invitation, on their own. And
Socrates
A brother may not be a friend, but a friend is always a brother.
Franklin b.
Choose your friend; you cannot be happy alone: happiness is a matter of two.
Pythagoras
Of all that wisdom brings to you for the happiness of your whole life, the most important thing is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
The friendship of one reasonable person is more precious than the friendship of all unreasonable ones.
Democritus
Everyone's friend is nobody's friend.
Aristotle
Friends are there to help each other.
Rollan R.
With friends, misunderstandings are never serious until there is a third person between them.
Rollan R.
... To be left without friends is the worst misfortune after poverty.
Defoe D
If you make new friends, don't forget the old ones.
Erasmus of Rotterdam
A friend is one soul living in two bodies.
Aristotle
Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although often neither of them admits this to himself.
Lermontov M. Yu.
Friendship is content with the possible, without demanding what is due.
Aristotle
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 seems that being a good person and a friend are one and the same.
Aristotle
Friendship must be immortal, and enmity must be mortal.
Livy
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
Blessed is he who is lucky with a true friend.
Menander
Friendship is the most necessary thing for life, since no one wants to live without friends, even if he had all the other blessings.
Aristotle
If you are a slave, you cannot be a friend. If a tyrant, you cannot have friends.
Nietzsche F.
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 the candles of other people 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
Whoever 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
He who is a good friend himself 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 possession of friendship is the most important.
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