"We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves."
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Category: Friendship
"The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends."
"When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness."
"The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own."
"What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors--in a word, it is a sortof traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer."
"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."
"Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them--and that wehave lost some who had a good opinion of us."
"It is impossible for us to love anything without some respect to ourselves; and we only consult our own inclination and our own pleasure when we prefer our friends to ourselves. And yet this preference is the only thing that can render friendship perfect and sincere."
"Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves."
"The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less."
"The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves."
"The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy."
"In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us."
"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."
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