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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude
On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings
He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste
Love and friendship exclude each other
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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