Friendship Quotes

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

18559 quotes

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"Friendship is the marriage of two equal souls for the sake of mutual improvement."
Locke, John
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"A man may be very warm in his attachments without being capable of friendship."
Hume, David
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"A true friend is a mirror of the soul."
Averroes
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"The foundation of friendship is not pleasure but mutual virtue."
Maimonides
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"The greatest gift is to increase another's power of acting."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The true friend mirrors both your virtues and your flaws with loving honesty."
Avicenna
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"True friendship endures when tested by hardship and time."
Al-Ghazali
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"A true friend loves you not for what you have, but for who you are."
Al-Ghazali
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"Bad company corrupts good character."
Augustine of Hippo
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"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures."
Thomas Aquinas
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"True friendship is the union of two souls."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Friendship is a virtue or implies virtue."
Thomas Aquinas
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"True friendship is based on mutual appreciation of each other's virtues."
Averroes
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"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
Cicero
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"A new friendship is the most tasking thing in the world."
Cicero
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"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."
Cicero
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"He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect."
Cicero
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"Life is nothing without friendship."
Cicero
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"Friendship with the wise is a treasure more valuable than any amount of gold."
Avicenna
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"There is nothing on this earth more to be prayed for than the union of friends."
Thomas Aquinas
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"True friendship is a divine gift."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures."
Thomas Aquinas
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"True friends are those who love us for what we are."
Thomas Aquinas
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"To have a friend is to have one soul in two bodies."
Thomas Aquinas
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"We are not angry at our friends unless we feel betrayed."
Epictetus
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"Withdraw into yourself, as much as you can. Associate with people who are likely to improve you."
Seneca
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"Prefer the company of the poor but honest than the rich but wicked."
Seneca
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"True friendship is impossible where there is jealousy or distrust."
Seneca
"Friend, do not go along with false principles."
Marcus Aurelius