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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

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

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.