Part 9

True friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal.

--Plato

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

--Thomas Fuller

Everything is well, provided one reaches the end of the day, that one sups and that one sleeps. The rest is “vanity of vanities,” as says “the other.” But friendship is a veritable thing.

--Voltaire

Ah, how good it feels; The hand of an old friend!

--Longfellow

No friend’s a friend till he shall prove a friend.

--Beaumont and Fletcher

We hate some persons because we do not know them, and we will not know them because we hate them. The friendships that succeed to such aversions are usually firm, for those qualities must be sterling that could not only gain our hearts, but conquer our prejudices.

--Colton

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

--Shakespeare

O friendship, equal-poised control, O heart with kindliest motion warm, O sacred essence, other form, O solemn ghost, O crowned soul!

--Tennyson

Who friendship with a knave hath made Is judg’d a partner in the trade.

--John Gay

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.

--Balthasar Gracian

Do not have evil-doers for friends; do not have low people for friends; have virtuous people for thy friends; have for thy friends the best of men.

--The Dhammapada

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

--The Book of Proverbs

What room can there be for friendship, or who can be a friend to anyone whom he does not love for that one’s own sake?

--Cicero

Make no friendship with an angry man that is given to anger, and with a furious man thou shalt not go.

--The Book of Proverbs