Part 12

For affection, or the faintest imitation of it, a man should be obliged to his very dog. But for the gross assistance of patronage or purse, let him pause before accepting them from anyone.

--Carlyle

Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not.

--The Book of Proverbs

The only good friends are old friends.

--Voltaire

Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter. O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

--Saadi

To thrust aside a virtuous friend, I consider as bad as to thrust away one’s own life, which one loves best.

--Sophocles

Friendship is one soul in two bodies.

--Pythagoras

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

--Cicero

Friendship is no respecter of sex; and perhaps it is more rare between the sexes, than between two of the same sex.

--Henry D. Thoreau

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

--Southey

As in the fire the yellow gold is tried, So friendship’s faith can but be proved in time Of dark adversity.

--Ovid

I always avoid contention, but if it shall happen, I had rather lose my money than my friend.

--Erasmus

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

--Franklin

No discovery of defect in a character essentially good can so dampen friendship as the suspicion that something is kept back.

--Channing

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

--Hafiz