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who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD)
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemian Ethics
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He
may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing
and sharing it.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C.
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Amicitia
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of
friendship.
Colette
(1873 - 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other
people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested
in you.
Dale Carnegie
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't
met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Dame Edna Everage (1934 - )
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe
you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours
or his.
Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well
tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant
of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington (1732 - 1799)