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Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld When we exaggerate the tenderness of our friends towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own merit. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. - Abraham Lincoln, in a reply to the Missouri Committee of Seventy O friend! O best of friends! Thy absence more Than the impending night darkens the landscape o'er! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus (pt. II, The Golden Legend, I) Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Courtship of Miles Standish (pt. VI, Priscilla, l. 72) Alas! to-day I would give everything To see a friend's face, or hear a voice That had the slightest tone of comfort in it. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Judas Maccaboeus (act IV, sc. 3, l. 32) My designs and labors And aspirations are my only friends. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Masque of Pandora--Tower of Prometheus on Mount Caucasus (pt. III, l. 74) Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, New England Tragedies--John Endicott (act IV, sc. 1) Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection. - John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie), Euphues Women, like princes, find few real friends. - Lord George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton ("The Good Lord Lyttelton"), Advice to a Lady (st. 2) A true friend is forever a friend. - George MacDonald He who reckons ten friends has not one. - Chretien Guillaume Malesherbes He who advises you to be reserved to your friends wishes to betray you without witnesses. [Sp., Quien te conseja encobria de tus amigos. Enganar te quiere assaz, y sin testigos.] - Don Juan Manuel, Prince of Castile, Conde Lucanor Friends are like melons. Shell I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try. - Claude Mermet, Epigram on Friends The way to gain a friend is to be one. - Jules Michelet As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port--heaven,-- Friend, what years could us divide? - Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik), Thirty Years--A Christmas Blessing A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity. - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade. - Lady Caroline Sheridan Norton (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton), We Have Been Friends But oh! if grief thy steps attend, If want, if sickness be thy lot, And thou require a soothing friend, Forget me not! forget me not! - Mrs. Amelia Opie The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Tristium (I, 5, 34) A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. - William Penn He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary. - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) There is nothing more friendly than a friend in need. [Lat., Nihil homini amico est opportuno amicius.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Displaying page 8 of 13 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] 9 10 11 12 13
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