Friendship Quotes

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

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"Friendship thrives when both parties honor the other's freedom."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"When women are gathered together, they engage in conversation more as individuals than as members of a group."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"Friendship between women is revolutionary because it refuses the hierarchy imposed by patriarchy."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"Genius is found in conversation."
Denis Diderot
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"The role of an interesting man is to listen."
Denis Diderot
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"The man who has many friends has none."
Denis Diderot
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"Friendship is the only cement that can hold the world together."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"The development of true friendship is a slow process."
Voltaire
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"A true friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
Voltaire
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"Friendship requires the ruthlessness of honesty and the gentleness of grace."
Albert Camus
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"Friendship is the recognition of another's radical freedom."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth; it must be watered by constancy."
Montesquieu
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"A true friend is a treasure beyond measure."
Denis Diderot
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"True friendship requires honesty, even when honesty brings discomfort."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"True friendship requires time and trust to flourish."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"A true friend sees the best in you before you see it in yourself."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"A true friend is the greatest blessing."
Pierre Corneille
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"A friend is a second self."
Pierre Corneille
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"True friendship is a divine gift."
Jean Racine
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"A faithful friend is worth more than gold."
Jean Racine
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"A man is known by the company he keeps."
Molière
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"No mirror gives back a truer reflection than an old friend."
Molière
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"Of all the inventions of man, none is so good as friendship."
Molière
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"Friendship is the poetry of human connection."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"The most important thing in a friendship is not what you gain, but what you give."
Denis Diderot
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"In friendship, as in love, constancy is more precious than passion."
Pierre Corneille
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"A friend is one who knows all about you and still loves you."
Molière
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"Friendship is the bridge that connects isolated souls in a lonely world."
Jean Racine
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"Loyalty is the currency of true friendship and cannot be counterfeited."
Jean Racine
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"Friendship is the balm of life"
Arthur Rimbaud