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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.”
C. S. Lewis
“The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”
Mencius
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.”
Oscar Wilde
“Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”
Mark Twain
“The best mirror is an old friend.”
George Herbert
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
Henry Ford
“No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.”
George Eliot
“It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,
A happy and auspicious bird of calm…”
Shelly
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity.”
Kahil Gibran
“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.”
Walt Whitman
“When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.”
Anatole Broyard
Here are some proverbs from different countries.
No man’s head aches while he is comforting another.
Indian
Speak no ill of a friend, nor even of an enemy.
Greek
No road is long with good company.
Turkish
Be not ungrateful to your old friend.
Hebrew
He who is a judge between two friends loses one of them.
French
Whatever I have given I still possess.
Latin
