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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
Jean de la Bruyere on friendship

Love and friendship exclude each other.
Jean de la Bruyere on friendship

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
J. Donald Walters on friendship

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
Jena Malone on friendship

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George Herbert on friendship

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Anita Brookner on friendship

Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Bronte on friendship

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
Enrique Iglesias on friendship

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Charles Peguy on friendship

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino on friendship

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge on friendship

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
Petrarch on friendship

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Mao Zedong on friendship

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
Sting on friendship

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
Mortimer Adler on friendship

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
Mortimer Adler on friendship

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adler on friendship

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Sallust on friendship

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
Joel Edgerton on friendship

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton Paul Fadiman on friendship