"In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us."
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Category: Friendship
"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."
"It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends."
"Some friendship is closely akin to treachery."
"The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends."
"How miserably things seem to be arranged in this world. If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss."
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
"There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal."
"In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend."
"The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness, and revels for a while in the empyrean of a love which only comes short, by one degree, of the sweetest sentiment entertained between the sexes."
"Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins."
"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a good many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
"If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it wasmyself."
"If you press me to tell why I loved [my friend], I feel that this cannot be expressed, except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I."
"I am not building here a statue to erect at the town crossroads, or in a church or a public square.... This is for a nook in a library, and to amuse a neighbor, a relative, a friend, who may take pleasure in associating and conversing with me."
"No pleasure has any savor for me without communication."
"Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!"
"When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog."
"That was the saddest thing for Sybille: after twenty minutes you have got as far with these people as after half a year, as aftermany years, nothing more is added."
"You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh,maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together, and blow."
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