If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take read more

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

There is no friendship in trade.

There is no friendship in trade.

Hand
Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
And great hearts expand
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Hand
Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
And great hearts expand
And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.

We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is read more

We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because read more

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?