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Friends Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.
- The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one…
- Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
- With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love…
- We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices,…
- No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery…
- All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the…
- An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment…
- But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of…
- For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
- Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter…
- I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon,…
- Thomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live ” He first answered “Certainly in my own where are all my…
- Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends
- To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
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