Friendship Quotes

The chosen family. Quotes about the people who show up, stick around, and make life better.

18559 quotes

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"Few things are harder to bear than a good friend gone wrong."
Aesop
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"Criticism from friends is easier to bear than from enemies."
Aesop
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"Sorrow shared is sorrow halved."
Aesop
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"The secret of friendship is constant forgiveness."
Thucydides
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"To be friends with one you love is the most blessed state of being."
Sappho
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"The gifts of friendship are always the most precious."
Sappho
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"To lose a friend is to lose a piece of oneself."
Sappho
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"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious."
Herodotus
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"Histories are more full of examples of fidelity of dogs than of friends."
Herodotus
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"A man's greatest wealth is the circle of his friends."
Herodotus
H
"The strongest bonds are those forged in the fires of shared struggle."
Herodotus
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"True friendship is born when one person says to another, I understand you."
Hippocrates
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"A loyal friend is worth more than all the gold in distant lands."
Pindar
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"A friend who abandons you in difficulty was never truly your friend."
Xenophon
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"In the company of good men, virtue becomes contagious."
Xenophon
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"Union gives strength."
Aesop
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"The greatest and most useful virtue is the art of agreeing to differ."
Aesop
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"One cannot be friends with someone who is not content."
Aesop
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"The world is full of people, but few are your friends."
Aesop
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"The saddest thing in the world is the loss of a friend."
Aesop
T
"The friendship of the powerful is purchased at a terrible price."
Thucydides
T
"It is more shameful to mistrust one's allies than to be deceived by them."
Thucydides
H
"True friends are harder to find than gold."
Herodotus
H
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Herodotus
S
"The bonds of friendship are woven from shared vulnerability and trust."
Sappho
S
"Friendship is the garden where the soul learns to grow."
Sappho
S
"I choose my companions carefully, for they shape who I become."
Sappho
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"True friendship is a treasure more precious than gold."
Xenophanes
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"The strongest bonds are those forged in adversity."
Xenophanes
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"Friendship is the only wealth that multiplies when divided equally."
Pindar