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 2. A friend is, as it were, a second self.

 3. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

 4. A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

 5. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

 6. A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

 7. A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

 8. An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse.

 9. As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

10. Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

11. Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

12. Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

13. Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

14. Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

15. Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also.

16. Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

17. Expect not a friendship with him who hath injured thee: he who suffereth the wrong, may forgive it; but he who doth it never will it be well with him.

18. False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

19. Foresake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

20. Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

21. Friends are thieves of time. He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

22. Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

23. Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

24. Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

25. Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

26. Friendship is Love without his wings! It is better to decide between our enemies than our friends; for one of our friends will most likely become our enemy; but on the other hand, one of your enemies will probably become your friend.

27. Friendship is no plant of hasty growth; Tho' planted in esteem's deep fixed soil, The gradual culture of kind intercourse Must bring it to perfection.

28. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

29. Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

30. Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

31. Friendship of officials...Thin as their papers.

32. Friendship requires deeds.

33. Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.

34. Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

35. Give me the avowed, the erect, and manly foe, Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn the blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend! The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

36. Go often to the house of thy friend, weeds choke the unused path.

37. He attracts and follows.

38. He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.

39. He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

40. He who hath many friends, hath none.

41. He who pursues people for what they can give, And yet pays no heed to those who have offered much, Is like the man who thinks only of the butter to come, And pays no heed to what has already been churned.

42. If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do.

43. If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

44. If the man permits himself to be led by this ineffable attraction, good fortune will come his way. When deep friendships exist, formalities and elaborate preparations are not necessary.

45. Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends better.

46. It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

47. It is not so much our friends' help that helps as the confidence of their help.

48. It may be doubtful, at first, Whether a person is an enemy or friend.

49. Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

50. Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

51. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.

52. Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

53. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

54. Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

55. Nothing more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

56. Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

57. One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

58. Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

59. Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

60. People become friends and enemies from consideration of gain and loss. Self-interest plays a very prominent part. Self-interest is very powerful. It can turn a friend into an enemy in no time and an enemy also into a friend. There is no such thing in existence as a friend or an enemy.

61. Poor is the friendless master of a world; a world in purchase of a friend is gain.

62. Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

63. Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

64. Rely on your own Self, your own inner spiritual strength.

65. Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

66. Secret forces are bringing compatible spirits together.

67. Stand on your own feet. Do not depend on money, friends or any one. When the friends are put to test, they will desert you.

68. That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

69. The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

70. The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

71. The joys that spring from external associations bring pain; they have their beginnings and their endings. The wise man does not rejoice in them.

72. The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

73. The mind is lowered through association with inferiors.

74. The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; is is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

75. The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

76. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

77. The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

78. The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies, cold friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm friends.

79. The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

80. Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow.

81. There are some people who are very resourceful at being remorseful, And who apparently feel the best way to make friends Is to do something terrible and then make amends.

82. There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

83. There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

84. There is nought better than to be With noble souls in company: There is nought dearer than to wend With good friends faithful to the end.

85. Think up something appropriate and do it.

86. This is the love whose fruit is sweet; Therefore to bide there in is meet.

87. To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship.

88. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

89. True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

90. Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

91. Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

92. What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

93. Whenever Fortune sends Disasters to our Dearest Friends, Although we outwardly may grieve, We oft are laughing in our sleeve.

94. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

95. With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough.

96. Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

97. Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.