I thought we were friends forever. Eternity turned out to be much shorter.

Do not try to embellish yourself for a friend: for you must be an arrow and a striving for the Superman for him.

"Friedrich Nietzsche"

When friendship becomes love, they merge like two rivers, the larger of which absorbs the smaller.

"Madeleine de Scudery"

Friendship can only unite worthy people.

"Cicero"

True friendship knows no envy, but true love- coquetry.

"Francois de La Rochefoucauld"

I don’t need a friend who, agreeing with me on everything, changes views with me, nodding his head, because a shadow does the same thing better.

"Plutarch"

Remember, friend: it is more difficult to find a Friend than a girlfriend.

"Lope de Vega"

Friendship is not only invaluable, but also beautiful; we praise the one who loves his friends, and having many friends seems like something wonderful, and some even think that being good person and friend - one and the same.

"Aristotle"

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It's more than power. It's almost the same as family.

Keep your distance from your enemies and be careful with your friends. A true friend is a strong defense: whoever finds him has found a treasure. There is no price for a faithful friend and there is no measure of his kindness.

Don't tell your friend what your enemy shouldn't know.

"Arthur Schopenhauer"

Only true friend can tolerate his friend's weaknesses.

"William Shakespeare"

True friendship must be frank and free from pretense and assent.

"Cicero"

Hatred for the same object brings people together a hundred times stronger than love, friendship, and respect combined.

My friendship is too cautious unless the danger of my friend makes me forget my own danger.

"Denis Diderot"

A true friend is someone whom I would trust in everything concerning me more than myself.

"Michel de Montaigne"

A rich man has companions and hangers-on, a powerful man has courtiers, a man of action has comrades, and they are also his friends.

"Andre Maurois"

The only way to find a friend is to be one.

"Ralph Waldo Emerson"

A friend is a person with whom I can be sincere. In his presence I can think out loud.

"Ralph Waldo Emerson"

Anyone who would let a friend down for his own benefit has no right to friendship.

"Jean Jacques Rousseau"

It is more difficult to fulfill the duties of friendship than to be delighted with them.

"Gotthold Ephraim Lessing"

We love our friends for their flaws.

"William Hazlitt"

Those who love to blame others are incapable of friendship.

"Democritus"

Wash your hands, brother, from that friend who hangs around with your enemies.

"Unsur al-Maali"

A true friend will help a friend, he will not be afraid of trouble. He will give his heart for his heart, and love is a star on the way.

"Shota Rustaveli"

Friendship penetrates the lives of all people, but to maintain it, sometimes you have to endure insults.

"Cicero"

Do not enter your friend’s house more often, so that he does not become bored with you and hate you.

"Joseph Joubert"

We are similar in heart; He’s like I’m different: I share grief with him, he shares joy with me.

"Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin"

Friendship is based on similarities in character and interests in general joint business, and not on the pleasure you get from the personality of another.

"Hegel"

If your friend becomes your enemy, then love him so that the tree of friendship, love and trust, which withered because it was not watered with the water of friendship and was not cared for, will bloom again.

"As-Samarkandi"

If my friends are crooked, I look at them in profile.

"Joseph Joubert"

Friendship between a man and a woman weakens greatly when night falls.

"Otto von Bismarck"

Many are friends for food, not friendship.

"Menander"

Quotes about friends

There is no greater joy than seeing friends, no greater sorrow than separation from friends.

"Rudaki"

Abuse of friendship - This is discord with wisdom.

"Shota Rustaveli"

Do not avoid your friend because of a small joke and do not be offended, for this is a sign of stupidity.

"As-Samarkandi"

True friendship is truthful and courageous.

"Johann Friedrich Schiller"

He who wants to have friends must be friendly himself; and there is a friend who is more attached than a brother.

"Solomon"

Having many friends means having none.

"Erasmus of Rotterdam"

If a friendship falls apart after the first push, stumbles over the first bump on the way, or crumbles into dust from the wind, this is not friendship at all. And so, it’s just pampering, friendship – and nothing more.

One of the first duties of friendship is to anticipate the requests of friends.

"Isocrates"

There is no friendship between a guy and a girl. She just tells him everything how best friend, and he wants her!

The only sincere and lasting friendship is that which exists between a man and a woman, because it is the only affection free from all rivalry.

"Auguste Comte"

I withdrew from the world not because I had enemies, but because I had friends. Not because they harmed me, as is usually the case, but because they considered me better than I am. I couldn't stand this lie.

"Albert Camus"

The inferiority of our friends gives us considerable pleasure.

"Philip Chesterfield"

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

It is better to sort out a dispute between your enemies than between friends, because obviously after this one of your friends will become your enemy, and some of your enemies will become your friend.

Best friends are ready to give their lives for each other, but when it comes to chewing gum... screw it, it's the last one!

A best friend is always a very good friend, but a good friend is not always the best.

A best friend is a person who is ready to give his life for you. But he will never do this only because his life already belongs to another, along with his heart.

A best friend, like love, is a completely inexplicable thing. You can quarrel at any moment, or you can tell each other everything you think, but he still won’t be offended by you.


The winner has many friends, and only the loser has real friends.

It is not difficult to die for a friend; it is difficult to find a friend worth dying for.

It's good to have a friend who cheers you up just by smiling at you.

It's good when a dog is a friend, but it's bad when a friend is a dog.

It is better to have one friend of great value than many of little value.

Better few friends and strong friendship than many “friends” and spitting behind your back...

When friends tell you about their problems, they are not complaining, they are just trusting you!

Shout - anyone will hear, whisper - the closest one will hear. But only a true friend will hear you when you are silent...

A best friend doesn’t get angry with you over trifles, doesn’t get offended over trifles, doesn’t notice your shortcomings... But, nevertheless, you shouldn’t test the strength of her good attitude towards you.

Consider a true friend to be the person who removes stones and thorns from your path.

Important friends are for important things... Therefore, having important friends and being able to save them is more important than having money.

"Baltasar Gracian y Morales"

A best friend is a person who knows everything about us and still loves us.

"Elbert Hubbard"

A best friend is someone you can sit with without saying a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

True friendship is possible only when silence does not strain the interlocutors.

The sage was asked: How many types of friendship are there? Four - he answered. Friends are like food - you need them every day. Friends are like medicine; you look for them when you feel bad. There are friends, like a disease, they themselves look for you. But there are friends like air - you can’t see them, but they are always with you...

Quotes about best friends

A true friend is with you when you are wrong. When you are right, everyone will be with you.

A true friend is someone who holds your hand and feels your heart.

You can never do too much for a loyal friend.

"Henrik Ibsen"

A true friend is someone who will walk through your door...even if the whole world has walked out.

Good friends will never let you do stupid things... alone.

Nothing replaces old friendship. Years do not add friends, they take them away, take them along different roads. Time tests friendship for rupture, fatigue, and loyalty. The circle of friends is thinning, but there is nothing more valuable than those who remain.

He who is a good friend himself has many good friends.

Friendship is the wine of existence, love is a good glass of vodka.
E.D. Bulwer-Lytton

Friendship is the haven to which a person strives; it brings joy and peace of mind, it is relaxation in this life and the beginning of heavenly life.
T. Tasso

Friendship is the only passion that does not weaken over the years.
Marquise Dudeffant

Friendship is nothing more than unanimity in all human and divine affairs, accompanied by mutual love and benevolence, compared to which I do not know what is better, except perhaps wisdom, bestowed upon man by the immortal gods.
Cicero

Friendship is a reflection of a person's personal dignity on other people.
R. Emerson

Friendship is a ship good weather capable of carrying two, but in bad weather - only one.
A. Beers

Friendship can do without love; love without friendship is not.
V. Klyuchevsky

Friendship, like love, is a rose with a luxurious color, an intoxicating aroma, but also with prickly thorns.
V. Belinsky

Friendship is when you can suddenly come to a person and live with him.
David Samoilov

Friendship is one of the highest decorations of human life. Its beneficial influence on a person is like love.
G. Markov

Friendship is, first of all, sincerity, it is criticism of a friend’s mistakes. Friends should be the first to give harsh criticism so that the friend can correct his mistake.
N. Ostrovsky

Friendship in the highest and proper sense is nothing more than a feeling arising from mutual disposition. It appears when each of the two wants the loved one and himself to be equally prosperous.
Alkina

The friendship of two women is always a conspiracy against the third.
A. Corr

The friendship of two saints does more evil than the open enmity of ten scoundrels.
O. de Balzac

Friendship for a woman is a man who loved her and told her about it too late.
F. Croisset

Friendship between writers resembles love, if not in its ardor, then in envy.
Riga

Without friendship, no communication between people has value.
Socrates

In happiness it is easy to find a friend, but in unhappiness it is extremely difficult.
Democritus

Everything should be shared between friends.
Euripides

Friendship once smart person dearer than the friendship of all fools.
Democritus

Like-mindedness creates friendship.
Democritus

Those who love to blame others are incapable of friendship.
Democritus

Friends have everything in common, and friendship is equality.
Pythagoras of Samos

Having learned a secret from a friend, do not betray it by becoming an enemy: you will strike not the enemy, but the friendship.
Democritus

The fraternal closeness of like-minded people is stronger than any walls.
Antisthenes of Athens

One of the first duties of friendship is to anticipate the requests of friends.
Isocrates

When extending your hand to friends, do not clench your fingers into a fist.
Diogenes of Sinope

The ancient proverb is true that equality creates friendship.
Plato

Close friendship occurs among people who are similar to each other.
Plato

To gain the favor of friends, you need to value their services higher than they do themselves; on the contrary, our favors to friends should be considered less than our friends believe.
Plato

Friendship is content with what is possible without demanding what is due.
Aristotle

Friendship is not only invaluable, but also beautiful; we praise the one who loves his friends, and having many friends seems like something wonderful, and some even think that being a good person and being a friend are the same thing.
Aristotle

Friendship is the most necessary thing for life, since no one would wish for a life without friends, even if he had all the other benefits.
Aristotle

Enjoying communication is the main sign of friendship.
Aristotle

Many are friends for food, not friendship.
Menander

Of all the things that wisdom provides for the happiness of life, the most important is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus

There is nothing better and more pleasant in the world than friendship; excluding friendship from life is the same as depriving the world of sunlight.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

In general, friendship can only be judged in relation to people of mature age and mature souls.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

A friend is like a second “I”.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

Friendship can only be strong with maturity of mind and age.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

Friendship can only unite worthy people.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

Friendship penetrates the lives of all people, but to maintain it, sometimes you have to endure insults.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

True friendship must be frank and free from pretense and assent.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

A true friend should be our second self; he will never demand anything from a friend other than what is morally beautiful; Friendship is given to us by nature as an assistant in virtues, and not as a companion in vices.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

Everyone loves himself not in order to receive any reward for his love, but because everyone is dear to himself. If we do not apply the same to friendship, then we will never find a true friend; After all, a friend for everyone is a second person.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

How much charm our happiness would lose if no one rejoiced in it with us! How difficult it would be to bear our misfortunes without a friend who experiences them even more strongly than us.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

It is not safe to praise the object of your love to a friend - once he believes your praises, he will follow in your footsteps.
Ovid

As long as you are happy, you have many friends; when times get dark, you're left alone.
Ovid

There are many friends; friendship is only rare.
Phaedrus

The name "friend" is an everyday name, but friendly loyalty is rare.
Phaedrus

Without a comrade, no happiness brings joy.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

Why am I making a friend? To have someone to die for.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

Friendship ends where mistrust begins.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

If you want to live a serene, storm-free life,
Not knowing the sorrows of life until old age, -
Don’t look for a friend for yourself and don’t call yourself anyone’s friend:
You will taste less joy and less sorrow.
Martial Mark Valery

I don’t need a friend who, agreeing with me on everything, changes views with me, nodding his head, because a shadow does the same thing better.
Plutarch

Money can't buy you a true friend.
Unknown author

The question arises whether it is ever possible to prefer new friends to old ones.
Unknown author

Share your thoughts with a friend.
Unknown author

A friend is the greatest wealth in life.
Unknown author

A friend is known by love, character, speech, and deeds.
Unknown author

Test your friend, and love the tested.
Unknown author

You cannot offend a friend even with a joke.
Unknown author

Iron sharpens iron, and a man sharpens the glance of his friend.

He who wants to have friends must be friendly himself; and there is a friend who is more attached than a brother.
Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

Do not enter your friend’s house more often, so that he does not become bored with you and hate you.
Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

He who associates with the wise will be wise, but he who associates with fools will become corrupt.
Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

Sweet lips will increase friends, and a kind tongue will increase affection. Let there be many who live with you in the world, and let one in a thousand be your advisor. If you want to make a friend, make him by trial and do not soon entrust yourself to him.
Old Testament. Sirach

Do not leave an old friend, for a new one cannot compare with him; A new friend is like new wine: when it becomes old, you will drink it with pleasure.
Old Testament. Sirach

Keep your distance from your enemies and be careful with your friends. A true friend is a strong defense: whoever finds him has found a treasure. There is no price for a faithful friend and there is no measure of his kindness.
Old Testament. Sirach

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. New Testament. Gospel of John

It is better to be in darkness than without a friend.
John Chrysostom

Better to hit friends than kiss enemies.
John Chrysostom

There is no greater joy than seeing friends, no greater sorrow than separation from friends.
Rudaki

There is no stronger joy in this world than the sight of loved ones and friends. There is no more painful torment on earth than to be with glorious friends in separation.
Rudaki

“Better friend or brother?” - “A brother, when he is also a friend, is better.”
Unsur al-Maali

It is better for a man to be without a brother than without friends.
Unsur al-Maali

Do not consider the Charka's friends as friends, for they are your Charka's friends, not your friends.
Unsur al-Maali

A foolish friend will do out of friendship what a hundred reasonable enemies will not do out of enmity.
Unsur al-Maali

Wash your hands, brother, from that friend who hangs around with your enemies.
Unsur al-Maali

Everything will pass - and the seed of hope will not sprout,
Everything you have accumulated will not be lost for a penny.
If you don't share it with your friend on time -
All your property will go to the enemy.

If your friend becomes your enemy, then love him so that the tree of friendship, love and trust, which withered because it was not watered with the water of friendship and was not cared for, will bloom again.
As-Samarkandi

Sincere friendship is based on closeness of minds and secret laws, and not on visible signs.
As-Samarkandi

Do not avoid your friend because of a small joke and do not be offended, for this is a sign of stupidity.
As-Samarkandi

A friend is a mirror for a friend, there is no brighter mirror!
Auhad al-Din Anvari

To drag out your days without a friend is the worst of all troubles.
The soul that has no friend is worthy of pity.
Nizami Ganjavi

Indulge your loyal friends, do not persecute them for their actions.
How will the vessel you broke into shards give you something to drink?
Nizami Ganjavi

A true friend will help a friend; he will not be afraid of trouble.
He will give heart for heart, and love is a star on the way.
Shota Rustaveli

He who does not look for friends is his own enemy.
Shota Rustaveli

A wise friend will not abandon his friend, despite all the hardships.
Shota Rustaveli

For friend's sake, one must not be afraid of trials,
Respond with your heart to your heart and pave the way with love.
Shota Rustaveli

Abuse of friendship - This is discord with wisdom.
Shota Rustaveli

Consider a true friend to be the person who removes stones and thorns from your path.
Saadi

Your true friend, who will show you on the way
All obstacles will help you overcome them.
Be careful not to classify flatterers as friends.
Your true friend is the one who is honest and straightforward.
Saadi

Attract friends to you through good deeds. This is the meaning of true friendship.
Abul Faraj

But you differentiate between the shell and the kernel. Introducing yourself as a friend is not that tricky.
Khisrav Dehlavi

How does a saint live who has not known friendship?
He is like an empty pearl oyster.
Alisher Navoi

Traveler, if you are walking the right path,
A faithful friend will help you along the way.
Muhammad Fuzuli

A comrade is a support in trouble, a doctor in illness, he is the one who sacrifices himself in a moment of mortal danger.
Sulkhan Orbeliani

A comrade is a high wall, an indestructible stronghold, a fortress reliably supplied with water.
Sulkhan Orbeliani

Don’t be cheeky with your friends, otherwise your friends will be nothing but nonentities.
Hong Zichen

Friendship, which is given for money, and not acquired by the greatness and nobility of the soul, can be bought, but cannot be kept.
Niccolo Machiavelli

He who is a good friend himself has good friends.
Niccolo Machiavelli

A friend should take on part of the friend's grief.
Erasmus of Rotterdam

If you make new friends, don't forget about the old ones.
Erasmus of Rotterdam

Having many friends means having none.
Erasmus of Rotterdam

No worldly blessings will be pleasant to us if we use them alone, without sharing them with friends.
Erasmus of Rotterdam

There cannot be long friendship, subordination, comradeship where one does not adapt to the other.
Francesco Guicciardini

There is nothing more precious than friends; therefore, do not lose the opportunity to acquire them whenever you can.
Francesco Guicciardini

A friend should be like blood flowing immediately to a wound, without waiting to be attracted.
Antonio Perez

In friendship there are no calculations or considerations other than itself.
Michel de Montaigne

True friends are those who have “one soul in two bodies.”
Michel de Montaigne

A true friend is someone whom I would trust in everything concerning me more than myself.
Michel de Montaigne

The deepest friendship gives rise to the most bitter enmity.
Michel de Montaigne

The point is not who you were born from, but who you hang out with.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Remember, friend: it is more difficult to find a Friend than a girlfriend.
Lope de Vega

A friend should bear with his friend's shortcomings.
William Shakespeare

A true friend everywhere
Faithful, in good times and in bad times;
Your sadness worries him,
You're not sleeping - he can't sleep,
And in everything, without further words,
He is ready to help you.
Yes, the actions are different
A loyal friend and a worthless flatterer.
William Shakespeare

Friendship is not cemented by intelligence; it is easily torn apart by stupidity.
William Shakespeare

Only a true friend can tolerate his friend's weaknesses.
William Shakespeare

There is little friendship in the world - and least of all among equals.
Francis Bacon

Friendship achieves the same result as courage, but only in a more pleasant way.
Francis Bacon

Friendship doubles joys and cuts sorrows in half.
Francis Bacon

Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon

If a person has a devoted friend, he has, as it were, two lives.
nor to fulfill your desires.
Francis Bacon

What, in essence, is wrong with the fact that my friend loves himself more than me?
Francis Bacon

Important friends are for important things... Therefore, having important friends and being able to save them is more important than having money.
Baltasar Gracian y Morales

There is no more depressing desert than life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and alleviates troubles; the joy of the soul, it is the only cure for hostile fate.
Baltasar Gracian y Morales

A man is judged by his friends.
Baltasar Gracian y Morales

When we lose a true friend, Nothing can heal mental illness.
Pierre Corneille

There is nothing more dangerous than an ignorant friend.
Jean de Lafontaine

When friendship becomes love, they merge like two rivers, the larger of which absorbs the smaller.
Madeleine de Scudery

If a friend reproaches you for some shortcoming, always think that he has not told you everything.
Thomas Fuller

Having been deceived by friends, we can indifferently accept the manifestations of their friendship, but we must sympathize with them in their misfortunes.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In friendship, as in love, what we don’t know more often brings happiness than what we know.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No matter how rare true love, true friendship is even rarer.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The greatest feat of friendship is not to show a friend our shortcomings, but to open his eyes to his own.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A true friend is the greatest of blessings and at the same time the blessing that one least thinks about acquiring.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True friendship knows no envy, and true love knows no coquetry.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Not noticing people's cooling means valuing their friendship little.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Most wonderful gift, made to people after wisdom, is friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The inferiority of our friends gives us considerable pleasure.

True friendship matures slowly and blossoms only where people have actually proven it to each other.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Diligently avoid any friendship with fools and rogues, if the word “friendship” is even applicable in relations with such people.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

All the honors in this world are not worth one good friend.
Voltaire

The eyes of friendship are rarely wrong.
Voltaire

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend is always a brother.
Benjamin Franklin

Choose your friend slowly, and be even less in a hurry to change him.
Benjamin Franklin

Friendship is a calm and quiet affection, guided and strengthened by habit, arising from long association and mutual obligations.
David Hume

Affection can do without reciprocity, but friendship never can.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Anyone who would let a friend down for his own benefit has no right to friendship.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

My friendship is too cautious unless the danger of my friend makes me forget my own danger.
Denis Diderot

Only a friend's hand can tear the thorns out of the heart.
Claude Adrian Helvetius

...I don’t know anything equivalent to the true friendship of an intelligent person - what a rare jewel it is.
Tobias George Smollett

A friend who is useless to his friend becomes a stranger to him.
Paul Henri Holbach

The basis of friendship is the benefits that friends expect to receive from each other. Deprive them of these benefits, and friendship will cease to exist.
Paul Henri Holbach

The friendship of vicious people is unreliable; it lasts only as long as it serves for mutual benefit.
Oliver Goldsmith

What is friendship? A word, an illusion that enchants us, a shadow that follows happiness and disappears in hours of unhappiness!
Oliver Goldsmith

Fulfilling the duties of friendship is somewhat more difficult than admiring it.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

He who seeks friends deserves to find them; He who has no friends has never looked for them.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It is more difficult to fulfill the duties of friendship than to be delighted with them.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A true gentleman is never a warm friend.
Edmund Burke

Perhaps, in order to fully appreciate friendship, one must first experience love.
Nicola Sebastian Chamfort

We have three kinds of friends in the world: some love us, others hate us, and others simply don’t remember us.
Nicola Sebastian Chamfort

Human friendship in most cases sprouts with many prickly “ifs” and “buts” and eventually turns into ordinary friendly relationships that last only thanks to omissions.
Nicola Sebastian Chamfort

Not true friends- these are swallows that you meet only in the summer; it is a sundial, useful only as long as the sun shines.
Theodor Gottlieb Hippel

IN strong friendship our strength
Glory and praise to friendship.
Robert Berne

Friendship is love without wings.
George Noel Gordon Byron

It is not so difficult to die for a friend as to find a friend who would be worth dying for.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Never make friends with a person you cannot respect.
Charles Darwin

He who boasts that he has made many friends has never had a single friend.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We love our friends for their flaws.
William Hazlitt

Friendship and community are born among people when there is a common enemy.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Friendship between a man and a woman weakens greatly when night falls.
Otto von Schönhausen Bismarck

Friendship is based on the similarity of characters and interests in a common joint endeavor, and not on the pleasure that you receive from the personality of the other.

In relation to your friends you need to be as little burdensome as possible. The most delicate thing is not to demand any favors from your friends.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In the bustle of this world, friendship is the only thing that matters in personal life...
Karl Marx

...What happiness is friendship like the one that exists between us. You know that I don’t value any relationship so highly.
Karl Marx

I enter into friendship with only very few, but I value it.
Karl Marx

Friendship is not such a pathetic flame that it can go out in separation.
Johann Friedrich Schiller

True friendship is truthful and courageous.
Johann Friedrich Schiller

Friendship is based on mutual benefit, on community of interests; but as soon as interests collide, friendship is dissolved: look for it in the clouds.
Arthur Schopenhauer

True friendship is one of those things that, like giant sea serpents, we don't know whether they're fictional or whether they exist somewhere.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Don't tell your friend what your enemy shouldn't know.
Arthur Schopenhauer

For friendship, any burden is light. The universe is eternal, meetings with friends are brief.
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky

The happiness that has never deceived me is your friendship. Of all my passions, the only one that has remained unchanged is my friendship for you, for my friendship is a passion.
Nikolai Platonovich Ogarev

A friendship that cannot withstand the touch of naked truth is not worth regretting. That's where she goes.
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev

Friendship warms the soul, a dress warms the body, and the sun and stove warm the air.
Kozma Prutkov

Hiding the truth from your friends, to whom will you open up?
Kozma Prutkov

Everyone in the world has enemies, But save us from friends, God!

No muses, no labors, no joys of leisure,
Nothing can replace your only friend.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

We are similar in heart; he's definitely different from me:
I share grief with him, he shares joy with me.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

Be sincere with your friends, moderate in your needs and selfless in your actions.
Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov

Sincerity in relationships, truth in communication - this is friendship.
Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov

Do not keep the alabaster vessels of your love and affection sealed until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness while they are still alive. Speak words of comfort to them while their ears can still hear the words and while their hearts can still be moved by your speech.
Henry Ward Beecher

For high friendship, one condition is necessary - the ability to do without it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a person with whom I can be sincere. In his presence I can think out loud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to find a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't have too many friends.
Alexandre Dumas (father)

If my friends are crooked, I look at them in profile.
Joseph Joubert

Everyone wants to have a friend, but no one wants to be a friend.
Alphonse Jean Carr

The only sincere and lasting friendship is that which exists between a man and a woman, because it is the only affection free from all rivalry.
Auguste Comte

Do not try to embellish yourself for a friend: for you must be an arrow and a striving for the Superman for him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

But if you have a suffering friend, become a place of rest for his suffering, but at the same time a hard bed, a camp bed: this is how you can best help him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Have you become clean air, bread and medicine for your friend? Another is unable to free himself from his own chains, but he saves his friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche

They say that friends are known in misfortune, but in my opinion, they are also known in happiness.
Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov

The highest honor that friends can give me is to follow my teaching in their lives, or to fight against it to the end if they do not believe in it.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Nothing can inspire and help people like friendship.
Ba Jin

Friendship is a delicate flower. One careless touch and the flower withers.
Sun Li

A bad friend is like a shadow: run on a sunny day and you won’t run away; on a cloudy day, look and you won’t find him.
Abay Kunanbaev

You can never do too much for a loyal friend.
Henrik Ibsen

Don't judge a person just by his friends. Remember that Judas had perfect friends.
Ernest Hemingway

It's hard without a friend when he's lost. But it is also difficult with a friend when he is not faithful.
Aibek

Although women attach great importance to friendship, they forget about it; men are distrustful of her, and lovers are jealous.
Paul Charles Joseph Bourget

I withdrew from the world not because I had enemies, but because I had friends. Not because they harmed me, as is usually the case, but because they considered me better than I am. I couldn't stand this lie.
Albert Camus

It is wise to water the wheel of friendship with the oil of polite politeness.
Gabrielle Sidonie Colette

True friendship is precisely a chosen kinship.
Ernest Wilfried Aeguwe

Friends do not wish us misfortune, but they find that we are “already happy.”
Auy Legendre

Companionship and friendship are signs of real reconciliation with one's gender role and real balance between the sexes.
Alfred Adler

A rich man has companions and hangers-on, a powerful man has courtiers, a man of action has comrades, and they are also his friends.
Andre Maurois

Less exalted, less selfish than love, friendship, alien to any harshness, occupies the hours that are not occupied by the latter. Friendship is a true, reliable refuge from the suffering caused by love.
Marcel Prevost

A friend is someone who, whenever you need him, knows about it.
Jules Renard

In friendship there are neither debtors nor benefactors.
Romain Rouyan

Friends exist to help each other.
Romain Rolland

Among friends, misunderstandings are never serious until a third party comes between them.
Romain Rolland

Comrades are only those who, holding on to the same rope, climb a mountain peak with common efforts and in this find their closeness.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

As rare as true love is, true friendship is even rarer.

Francois La Rochefoucauld

For high friendship, one condition is necessary - the ability to do without it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyone who would let a friend down for his own benefit has no right to friendship.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Friendship usually serves as a transition from simple acquaintance to enmity.

Vasily Klyuchevsky

How few friendships would survive if everyone suddenly found out what friends were saying behind his back, even though it was then that they were sincere and impartial.

Blaise Pascal

A friendship that ended never really began.

Publius Syrus

Friendship is such a sacred, sweet, lasting and permanent feeling that you can keep it for life, unless, of course, you try to borrow money.

Mark Twain

Love can be unrequited. Friendship - never.

Janusz Wisniewski

In the bustle of this world, friendship is the only thing that matters in personal life.

Karl Marx

Friendship is not such a pathetic flame that it can go out in separation.

Johann Schiller

Enjoying communication is the main sign of friendship.

Aristotle

Friendship can only be strong with maturity of mind and age.

Cicero

There is little friendship in the world - and least of all among equals.

Francis Bacon

True friendship matures slowly and blossoms only where people have actually proven it to each other.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

The basis of friendship is the benefits that friends expect to receive from each other. Deprive them of these benefits - and friendship will cease to exist

Paul Henri Holbach

Friendship is based on the similarity of characters and interests in a common joint endeavor, and not on the pleasure that you receive from the personality of the other.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

What is friendship? A word, an illusion that enchants us, a shadow that follows happiness and disappears in hours of unhappiness!

Oliver Goldsmith

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Friendship and community are born among people when there is a common enemy.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fulfilling the duties of friendship is somewhat more difficult than admiring it.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The only sincere and lasting friendship is that which exists between a man and a woman, because it is the only affection free from all rivalry.

Auguste Comte

Quotes about friends

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Henry Ford

When extending your hand to friends, do not clench your fingers into a fist.

Diogenes

The Lord has given us relatives, but we, thank God, are free to choose our own friends.

Ethel Mumford

Over the course of my life, I have become convinced that conversations with friends take up time most and most imperceptibly: friends are great robbers of time.

Francesco Petrarca

Don’t rush to choose friends, and even less so to change them.

Benjamin Franklin

There are people to whom we forgive, and there are people to whom we do not forgive. Those whom we do not forgive are our friends.

Henri Montherlant

But you differentiate between the shell and the kernel. Introducing yourself as a friend is not that tricky.

Khisrav Dehlavi

You can never do too much for a loyal friend.

Henrik Ibsen

It is not so difficult to die for a friend as to find a friend who would be worth dying for.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A true friend is a person who will tell you everything he thinks about you and tell everyone that you are a wonderful person.

Omar Khayyam

Where real friends are, friendship is not visible.

Konstantin Simonov

Treat your friends as if they were your enemies.

Publius Syrus

Having many friends means having none.

Erasmus of Rotterdam

True friends are those who have “one soul in two bodies.”

Michel de Montaigne

The point is not who you were born from, but who you hang out with.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Important friends are for important things... Therefore, having important friends and being able to save them is more important than having money.

Baltasar Gracian y Morales

Don't tell your friend what your enemy shouldn't know.

Arthur Schopenhauer

When we lose a true friend, Nothing can heal mental illness.

Pierre Corneille

A friend who is useless to his friend becomes a stranger to him.

Paul Henri Holbach

Everyone in the world has enemies, But save us from friends, God!

Alexander Pushkin

QUOTES ABOUT FRIENDS

There is no greater sweetness for a woman than to sympathize with her beloved friend.

Yuri Trifonov

I’m not strong, she’s not strong, but together with my friend we are stronger than anyone in the world.

Linda McFarlane

Friendship between women is just a non-aggression pact.

Henri Montherlant

I have girlfriends, but I prefer to be friends with men. Don't trust women. The spirit of competition between women is ineradicable.

Mary Wilson Little

She's my best friend. She thinks I'm slim and I think she's a natural blonde.

Carrie Snow

If your husband ran off with your best friend, you will miss her very much.

Murphy's Laws

Friendship is impossible between two women, one of whom dresses very well.

Laurie Colvin

When I was a girl, I only had two girlfriends, and only imaginary ones. And they only played with each other.

Rit Rudner

Yes, I have several real friends, but we don’t really like each other.

Yanina Ipohorskaya

She's like that good friend that she would throw all her friends into the water in order to have the pleasure of getting them out of there.

Anna Stahl

Women for the most part are so indifferent to friendship because it seems insipid to them in comparison with love.

Francois La Rochefoucauld

Women don't count their years. Their friends do it for them.

Yuzef Bulatovich

The friendship of two women is always a conspiracy against the third.

Alphonse Carr

The loneliest woman in the world is the woman who has no close friend.

George Santayana

Scold your friends privately, but praise them publicly.

Solon

It has long been known: nothing makes a young girl look better and raises her self-esteem than having a friend.

Victoria Platova

Women friends kiss each other when they meet because they cannot bite.

Magdalena the Impostor

In your friend you discover yourself.

Isabel Norton

A good friend can tell you the truth. True, in a minute she will cease to be the best...

Arthur Brisbane

Mothers confess and are frank with their friends.

Jeanne Marie Rolland

  • Life leaves best friends nearby. Disease - sent by God.
  • I don't choose my friends. This activity is stupid and useless. I find it much more interesting to choose vegetables at the market. Friends are gifts from fate.
  • A good thing is the hand of a friend. It does not oblige the one who holds it out to anything, and greatly comforts the one who shakes it... (A. Gavalda)
  • If you make new friends, don't forget about the old ones. (Erasmus of Rotterdam)
  • Find friends, scatter enemies! (Ray Bradbury)
  • The best quotes about friends with meaning

    • You need to value friendship, and not just be able to have fun together.
    • I don’t need a friend who, agreeing with me on everything, changes views with me, nodding his head, because a shadow does the same thing better. (Plutarch)
    • This is what it means to be best friends. That's what they're for. To help you not fall into the abyss. (Lauren Oliver)
    • Short quotes about friends with meaning- Nothing strengthens friendship more than the confidence that this friend is better than another. (Honoré de Balzac)
    • Only those people who know how to forgive each other's minor shortcomings can be connected by true friendship. (Jean de La Bruyère)
  • Enemies always tell the truth, friends never. (Cicero)
  • Only a friend's hand can tear the thorns out of the heart. (Claude Helvetius)
  • Friendship does not mean a long acquaintance and communication with some person. This means letting him into your life and soul forever.
  • Throughout my life I have become convinced that conversations with friends take up the most and most imperceptible time; friends are the great robbers of time. Petrarch
  • Friendship is the most necessary thing for life, since no one would wish for a life without friends, even if he had all the other benefits. (Aristotle)
  • Get to know people through personal communication to have real friends.
  • One of the biggest problems in our lives is to figure out who your friends are. (Mark Levy)
  • The sage was asked: How many types of friendship are there? Four - he answered. Friends are like food - you need them every day. Friends are like medicine; you look for them when you feel bad. There are friends, like a disease, they themselves look for you. But there are friends like air - you can’t see them, but they are always with you...
  • Friendship is not always tested by adversity. Sometimes it’s also happiness.
  • We are not particularly happy with our friends if they value our good qualities, allow ourselves to notice our shortcomings as well. (Vauvenargues)
  • A friend is the person who comes when everyone else leaves...
  • Our friends are part of our happiness.
  • Passing difficult tests life situations, only the most faithful friends remain in our lives. They accept us when we are cool, witty, and lucky. They love us hysterical, snotty, weak.
  • It is not family ties that create friends, but a community of interests. (Democritus)
  • In the edifice of human happiness, friendship builds the walls, and love forms the dome.
  • A friend is someone who gives you complete freedom to be yourself. (Jim Morrison)
  • Quotes about friends with meaning from great people- Friends are known in trouble, but even more in joy and luck. It is the feeling of envy that most often separates once close people.
  • Friendly jealousy is perhaps more terrible than any other.
  • Don't be discouraged and remember - when things get hard, pick up a book and read. Books are friends who never die. (Confucius)
  • Only enemies tell each other the truth. Friends and lovers, caught in a web of mutual debt, lie endlessly. (Stephen King)