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“My friends, there are no friends.”
— Coco Chanel
“Friends show their love in times of trouble. ”
— Euripides
“Prosperity is full of friends.”
— Euripides
“Friendship has its illusions no less than love”
— Stendhal
“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”
— Honore de Balzac
“The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.”
— Honore de Balzac
“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
— Moliere
“The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. ”
— Moliere
“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. ”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends. ”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. ”
— Lord Byron
“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. ”
— Lord Byron
“Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. ”
— Lord Byron
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“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. ”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“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 we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“You win the victory when you yield to friends.”
— Sophocles
“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. ”
— Victor Hugo
“The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.”
— Ovid
“Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.”
— Ovid
“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. ”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.”
— Robert Rodriguez
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