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Friendship Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
- A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
- Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.
- Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always…
- A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
- 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…
- If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
- In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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- 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