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

Henry Ford
US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947)

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Mahatma Gandhi
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Katherine Mansfield
New Zealand short story author (1888 - 1923)

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anais Nin
US (French-born) author & diarist (1903 - 1977)

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Seneca
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD)

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Gore Vidal
US author & dramatist (1925 - )

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

Honore de Balzac
French realist novelist (1799 - 1850)

I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.

William Hazlitt
English essayist (1778 - 1830)

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

W.C. Fields

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anais Nin
US (French-born) author & diarist (1903 - 1977)

Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible, Old Testament

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC)

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Epidicus
Roman comic dramatist (254 BC - 184 BC)

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

Cicero, De Amicitia
Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus
(~100 BC)

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, A Hundred Sayings
(602 AD - 661 AD)

Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.

Solon
Greek lawgiver & politician in Athens (638 BC - 559 BC)

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