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Friendship Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “A true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Friendship, Love, Encouragement, Support, Self-Discovery

2. “Friendship is one soul in two bodies.”

Pythagoras

Friendship, Soul, Connection, Wisdom, Unity

3. “We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.”

Pythagoras

Friendship, Enemies, Behavior, Wisdom, Harmony

4. “Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.”

Pythagoras

Friendship, Support, Journey, Perseverance, Happiness

5. “A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.”

Pythagoras

Friendship, Trust, Betrayal, Wisdom, Relationships

6. “Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.”

Pythagoras

Forgiveness, Friendship, Forgetfulness, Compassion, Kindness

7. “A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Trust, Loyalty, Reliability, Wisdom

8. “Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Character, Loyalty, Constancy, Intimacy

9. “Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Happiness, Heart, Joy, Companionship

10. “So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Trust, Affection, Loyalty, Worthiness

11. “Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Adversity, Loyalty, Wealth, Trial

12. “The flatterer’s object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Truth, Honesty, Flattery, Integrity

13. “Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Loyalty, Contentment, Equality, Trust

14. “It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Honesty, Character, Praise, Integrity

15. “Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.”

Plutarch

Adversity, Friendship, Loyalty, Test, Hardship

16. “When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.”

Plutarch

Wealth, Friendship, Loyalty, Betrayal, Greed

17. “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Loyalty, Trust, Individuality, Authenticity

18. “Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.”

Leonard Cohen

Uncertainty, Silence, Understanding, Truth, Friendship

19. “You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.”

Thomas Merton

Love, Joy, Friendship, Appreciation, Human Connection

20. “We can be, in some sense, friends to all men because there is no man on earth with whom we do not have something in common. But it would be false to treat too many men as intimate friends. It is not possible to be intimate with more than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common. Love, then, must.”

Thomas Merton

Friendship, Connection, Love, Relationships, Boundaries

21. “On the airplane, Sly and I were smoking stogies and constantly trading jokes. We never talked about the feud. We were typical guys, totally in denial, as if there had never been any problem and nothing had ever happened.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Friendship, Humor, Denial, Feud, Camaraderie

22. “A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend.”

Anton Chekhov

Relationships, Gender, Friendship, Love, Society

23. “A woman can only become a man’s friend after having first been his acquaintance and then his beloved – then she becomes his friend.”

Anton Chekhov

Friendship, Love, Relationships, Bond, Connection

24. “A friend, even if he be the enemy’s son, should be protected.”

Chanakya

Friendship, Loyalty, Ethics, Wisdom, Protection

25. “There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.”

Chanakya

Friendship, Self-Interest, Reality, Trust, Truth

26. “Just as a mirror reflects as a man's face his personality is reflected in his choice of friends. One must always be careful in forming friendships and acquaintances, for one’s friends, are in a way, an extension of one’s inner inclinations and tendencies.”

Chanakya

Friendship, Reflection, Character, Influence, Choices

27. “Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.”

Chanakya

Equality, Friendship, Balance, Status, Harmony

28. “Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown-up children are your best friends.”

Chanakya

Parenting, Children, Friendship, Growth, Discipline

29. “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere.”

Chanakya

Education, Friendship, Respect, Knowledge, Wisdom

30. “He who has wealth has friends.”

Chanakya

Wealth, Friendship, Social, Power, Influence

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