Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so.
[Fr., Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est read more

Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so.
[Fr., Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi qui t'en convie.]

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if
we are to be real friends.

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if
we are to be real friends.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat
of my bread, hath lifted up his read more

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat
of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things read more

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful
friend;
Gold some decayeth, and worldly read more

There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful
friend;
Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in
the winde;
But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale
and woe;
The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the
same overthrowe.
- edited by John Payne Collier,

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

Friend, of my infinite dreams
Little enough endures;
Little howe'er it seems,
It is read more

Friend, of my infinite dreams
Little enough endures;
Little howe'er it seems,
It is yours, all yours.