Friendship Quote by Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

— Victor Hugo

We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

— Anonymous

We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.

— Cyrus the Great

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us…

— William Hazlitt

We tend to love the people who doesn't love us and love the ones who don't love us

— Christine

We need not regard what good a friend has done us, but only his desire to do us good.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

— Woodrow Wilson

The sign that we do not love someone is to not give the best within us.

— Anonymous

“In human relationships, those who do not love are rarely loved: those who will not be friends end up by having none. [p. 15…

— David Schoenbrun

Friends show their love in times of trouble.

— Euripides

“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.”

— Charlotte Bronte