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Friends Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for…
- We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like…
- When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.
- However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
- 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…
- In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
- We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
- We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
- Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them…
More Friends Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten. — J. J. Abrams