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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
I have prided myself for being a good friend to many in my life. I have appreciated, cared, encouraged, and loved my friends, sometimes at the cost of my time, energy, and health.
Today I ask myself: How good a friend am I? Have I been a good friend to myself? Do I appreciate, care, encourage, and love myself?
Am I for myself or, am i against myself?
Do I have love for myself or, is my love against myself?
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
I don't deliberately select my friends because of their background. If I enjoy someone's company, then that's all that counts. I have many different friends who aren't from the same background as me and we get on really well, it's brilliant.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions, their reasons are always different.
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion, even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds.
You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.
That is the best, to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
We cannot always assure the future of our friends. We have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
That is the best, to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?