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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover
You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief
As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity
The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed but the same means must be approved by both
Men become friends by a community of pleasures
Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship
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