Friendship Quotes

• "To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship. [Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.]"
  By: Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus), Catilina (XX), from Cataline's Oration to his Associates
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• "To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship."
  By: Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus)
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• "What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. [Lat., Quod tuum'st meum'st; omne meum est autem tuum.]"
  By: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Trinummus (II, 2, 47)
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• "As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. [Lat., Scilicet ut fulvum spectatur in ignibus aurum Tempore in duro est inspicienda fides.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Tristium (I, 5, 25)
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• "The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Epistoloe Ex Ponto (II, 3, 8)
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• "There is no friendship between those associated in power; he who rules will always be impatient of an associate. [Lat., Nulla fides regni sociis omnisque potestas Impatiens consortis erit.]"
  By: Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan), Pharsalia (I, 92)
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• "Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love."
  By: Walter Savage Landor
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• "Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity."
  By: Jean de la Bruyere
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• "Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Friendship is seldom lasting, but between equals, or where superiority is reduced by some equivalent advantage."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment."
  By: Oliver Goldsmith
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• "Friendship, like love, is self-forgetful. The only inequality it knows is one that exalts the object, and humbles self."
  By: Henry Giles
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• "There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?"
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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