Friendship Quotespresented in this collection will help you understand a lot about friendship. After all, the thoughts of great people are of special value.
Friendship is a personal unselfish relationship between people based on common interests and hobbies, mutual respect, understanding and mutual assistance.
Friendship presupposes personal sympathy and affection, and affects the most intimate, emotional aspects of human life.
In all centuries, friendship has been considered one of the best moral feelings of a person.
By the way, pay attention to the summary of Carnegie's famous book How to Win Friends and Influence People.
So, before you are selected quotes from great people about friendship. There are both very serious and deep thoughts, and just witty statements about friends and friendly feelings.
Friendship statements
In poverty and other life's misfortunes, true friends are a safe haven.
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All sympathize with the misfortunes of their friends, and only a few rejoice at their successes.
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Foolishness and wisdom are as easily grasped as contagious diseases. Therefore, choose your comrades.
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The eyes of friendship are rarely wrong.
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You will make more friends in two months by being interested in other people than you would have made them in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
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Fear the friendship of an evil person as much as the hatred of an honest person.
Francois Fenelon
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In face-to-face conversations between close friends, the wisest people very often make very weak judgments, because talking with a friend is the same as thinking out loud.
Joseph Addison
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A brother may not be a friend, but a friend is always a brother.
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Choose a friend slowly, even less hurry to change him.
B. Franklin
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Truly, the closest person is the one who knows your past, believes in your future, and now accepts you for who you are.
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Having learned a secret from a friend, do not betray it by becoming an enemy: you will strike not an enemy, but friendship.
Democritus
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A very witty and topical quote about friendship from the master of satire:
Friendship has changed so much that it allows betrayal, does not need meetings, correspondence, heated conversations, and even allows the presence of one friend.
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A woman is a creature that needs to be loved. If you do not know how to love - sit and be friends!
M. Zhvanetsky
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Friendship is more tragic than love - it dies much longer.
O. Wilde
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Affection can do without reciprocity, but friendship never.
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True friendship is one of those things that, like giant sea serpents, are not known whether they are fictional or exist somewhere.
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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 mistrust, and how it is, admit, justified.
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To gain the favor of friends, one must value their services higher than they themselves do, and our favors to friends must, on the contrary, be considered less than they believe.
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A deep, albeit dark quote about friendship from the great master of aphorisms (by the way, take a look at selected quotes by La Rochefoucauld):
People usually call friendship a joint pastime, mutual assistance in business, an exchange of services - in a word, a relationship where selfishness hopes to gain something.
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A cowardly friend is more terrible than an enemy, for you fear the enemy, but you hope for a friend.
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Enjoying communication is the main sign of friendship.
Aristotle
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Friendship is a school for educating human feelings.
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In this quote about friendship, there is a subtle irony from an outstanding Russian historian:
Friendship usually serves as a transition from simple acquaintance to enmity.
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Friendship between a man and a woman is a relationship of either former lovers or future ones.
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The two worst 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 Beigbeder
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On the road and in prison, friendship is always born and a person's abilities are manifested brighter.
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Never exaggerate the stupidity of enemies and the loyalty of friends.
M. Zhvanetsky
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A very witty quote about friendship from an outstanding German philosopher:
They say it's hard to find a friend in need. On the contrary, as soon as you make friends with someone, you see that your friend is already in need and strives to borrow some money.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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In friendship, there are neither debtors nor benefactors.
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I am indifferent to the stabbing of the enemy, but the pinprick of a friend agonizes me.
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In friendship, there are no calculations and considerations, except for itself.
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In life, selfless love is more common than true friendship.
Jean de La Bruyere
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There is little friendship in the world - least of all among equals.
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In relationships with friends, advise them to do only what they are able to do, and lead them to good, without breaking decency, but do not try to act where there is no hope of success. Don't put yourself in a humiliating position.
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In this unfaithful world, don't be a fool:
Do not try to rely on those around you.
Look at your closest friend with a sober eye
The friend may prove to be the worst enemy.
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Great common hatred creates strong friendship.
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Renewed friendships require more care and attention than friendships that have never been interrupted.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The greatest feat of friendship is not to show a friend our shortcomings, but to open his eyes to his own.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A faithful friend is known in a wrong deed.
Annius Quint
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If you are friends with a lame person, you yourself begin to limp.
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War experiences the brave, the wrath of the sage, and the need, the friend.
Eastern wisdom
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Friendship is such a sacred, sweet, lasting and permanent feeling that it can be preserved for a lifetime, unless, of course, you try to ask for a loan.
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Friendship doubles joys and halves sorrows.
Francis Bacon
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Be sincere with your friends, moderate in your needs and selfless in your actions.
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Where friendship weakens, ceremonial politeness increases.
William Shakespeare
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The Lord has given us relatives, but we are free to choose our friends.
Ethel Mumford
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The deepest quote about friendship. Think about what it says:
A good memory is the basis of friendship and the death of love.
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Do not be blinded by friendship for the shortcomings of your friend, nor hatred for the good qualities of your enemy.
Confucius
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We acquire friends not by receiving services from them, but by providing them ourselves.
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Everything will pass - and the grain will not rise,
Everything that you have saved up will be lost for a penny.
If you don't share with a friend in time
All your property will go to the enemy.
Omar Khayyam
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Friendship between women is just a non-aggression pact.
Montherland
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3 and in my life I have become convinced that conversations with friends take up the most and most imperceptibly time; friends are great time robbers ...
Francesco Petrarca
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And in friendship and in love, sooner or later, the time comes for settling scores.
Bernard Show
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Sincerity of relationship, truth in communication - that's friendship.
A. Suvorov
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He who does not seek friends for himself is his own enemy.
Shota Rustaveli
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Knowing what to talk to a person about is a sign of mutual sympathy. When you have something to be silent about together, this is the beginning of a real friendship.
Max Fry
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One sacrament of a firm connection of worthy friends is to be able to forgive misunderstandings and to enlighten urgently about shortcomings.
A. Suvorov
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The most difficult thing in friendship is to be on a par with someone who is below you.
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And this quote about friendship requires special attention. Sometimes people think that friendship is something that happens on its own. In fact, it requires some work:
In the best, friendliest and simplest relationships, flattery or praise is necessary, just as lubrication is necessary for the wheels to drive.
L. Tolstoy
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The deepest friendship breeds the most bitter enmity.
M. Montaigne
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The primordial thread of human ties breaks,
To attach to who? What to love? Who to be friends with?
There is no humanity. It's best to avoid everyone
And, without opening his soul, talk trifles.
O. Khayyam
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Anyone who, for the sake of his own benefit, would let a friend down, has no right to friendship.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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True friendship does not know envy, and true love is flirtatious.
La Rochefoucauld
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Even sorrow has its own charm, and happy is the one who can cry on the chest of a friend, in whom these tears will cause sympathy and compassion.
Pliny the Younger
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For a devoted friend, you can never do too much.
Henrik Ibsen
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Some friendships last longer than the lives of the people they linked.
Max Fry
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Friendship is like a diamond: it is rare, expensive, and there are a lot of fakes.
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A true friend is with you when you're wrong. When you're right, everyone will be with you.
Mark Twain
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Friendship is like a treasury: you cannot learn more from it than you put into it.
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