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Friendship Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.
- Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.
- It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves…
- Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent.…
- To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.
- Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.
- Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
- Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
- Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
- The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it…
- My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my…
- We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
- Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed...
- The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see…
- Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases the fruition…
- At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among…
- I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of…
- People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
- Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it…
- Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of…
- Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have…
- In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to…
- The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!
- While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot…
- It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — 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
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle