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All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert on friendship

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine on friendship

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on friendship

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle on friendship

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey on friendship

Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle on friendship

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Marilyn Monroe on friendship

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron on friendship

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil on friendship

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Richard Burton on friendship

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David Thoreau on friendship

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.
Jennifer Aniston on friendship

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington on friendship

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore on friendship

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Elbert Hubbard on friendship

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on friendship

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus on friendship

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Elbert Hubbard on friendship

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
John Wooden on friendship

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir on friendship