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“In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“the only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

“In the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Friendship

“the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Every friend in power is a friend lost.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.” Confucius, Analects

“To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I'm always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“It is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.” William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“But I don't think I ought to leave my friends like this, after all we have gone through together.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!” William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Between Silver and myself we got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable—not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .'” C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title” Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin–to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours–closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We...” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature—it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist—to sympathise with a friend's success.” Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.” Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.” John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Moreover the wealthy may have pity beyond right on the needy that befriended them when they were in want.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends” L. Frank Baum, The Road to Oz

“the friends that we have lost do not repose in the bosom of the earth, but are buried deep in our hearts, and it has been thus ordained that we may always be accompanied by them.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“my friends have made the story of my life.” Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

“Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“We may then lay down this rule of friendship—neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Friendship

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