"He was my friend, faithful and just to me."
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Category: Friendship
"They have seemed to be together, though absent; shook hands as over a vast; and embraced as it were from the ends of opposed winds."
"I cannot live out of her company."
"He'll go along o'er the wide world with me."
"If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams."
"There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim."
"Children treat their friends differently than they treat the other people in their lives. A friendship is a place for experimenting with new ways of handling anger and aggression. It is an arena for practicing reciprocity, testing assertiveness, and searching for compromise in ways children would not try with parents or siblings."
"True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie."
"We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affectionand solicitude."
"We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves."
"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."
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