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Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
Encounter
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship
He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread
Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults
Search
On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays