Friendship Quotes
The chosen family. Quotes about the people who show up, stick around, and make life better.
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"In friendship, care must be taken not to love everything that appears lovely lest you lose yourself in another's appetites."Michel de Montaigne
"A friend is not found, but built through the investment of time and shared vulnerability."Michel de Montaigne
"What would life be without friendship? It would be like a world without the sun."Michel de Montaigne
"A true friend reflects back the best of who you are."Giordano Bruno
"Friendship is the laboratory where love learns to trust."Giordano Bruno
"In friendship, we discover ourselves."Giordano Bruno
"The chief bond of human fellowship is the exchange of kind offices and mutual benefits."Desiderius Erasmus
"A day spent without the society of like-minded people is a day wasted."Desiderius Erasmus
"Friendship is the voluntary orbit of two souls."Niccolò Copernicus
"Friendship is love without the chains of obligation."Niccolò Copernicus
"False friends are worse than open enemies, for they strike in darkness."Thomas More
"Friendship is the rarest form of love, for it asks nothing but itself."Thomas More
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."Michel de Montaigne
"Life without friendship is like the sky without sun."Diogenes Laërtius
"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."Diogenes Laërtius
"True friendship is a union of kindred spirits."Porphyry
"True friendship is a treasure greater than gold."Strabo
"In friendship, we find mirrors of ourselves."Strabo
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."Petronius
"A friend is a treasure beyond measure."Petronius
"Friendship requires not proximity but alignment of purpose and virtue."Diogenes Laërtius
"In friendship there are no limits to good will and affection."Desiderius Erasmus
"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod."Plutarch
"Shared sorrow is half sorrow; shared joy is double joy."Plutarch
"The most fruitful and natural exercise of our minds is conversation."Michel de Montaigne
"True friendship is like sound health; its value is seldom known until it is lost."Michel de Montaigne
"In friendship, one should be blind to faults and keen to virtues."Michel de Montaigne
"The rarer the friendship, the more one wonders at its existence."Michel de Montaigne
"Friendship is a divine gift that cannot be bought or forced into being."Michel de Montaigne
"The fault of a friend is often the consequence of his having superior qualities."Michel de Montaigne