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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Khalil Gibran on friendship

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
Walter Winchell on friendship

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Confucius on friendship

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Giotto di Bondone on friendship

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya on friendship

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison on friendship

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche on friendship

Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo on friendship

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson on friendship

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Thomas Fuller on friendship

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on friendship

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux on friendship

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Saint Francis de Sales on friendship

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.
Judy Holliday on friendship

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker on friendship

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield on friendship

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius on friendship

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David Thoreau on friendship

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard on friendship

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus on friendship