Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet read more

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to read more

To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.

A friend is a second self.

A friend is a second self.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts read more

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.

In friendship I early was taught to believe;
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I have found that a read more

In friendship I early was taught to believe;
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I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.