Friendship Quotes

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

18559 quotes

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"True friendship requires honesty even when dishonesty would be easier and more comfortable."
Averroes
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"The wise person will choose friendship and community over isolation."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"Friendship is born when one person says to another: 'What! You too?'"
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"We acquire friends not for their usefulness, but for their character."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"Friendship is the most necessary thing for living."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Friendship multiplies joys and divides griefs."
Seneca
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"The wounds of friends are better than the kisses of enemies."
Seneca
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"The depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Bad friends will prevent you from having good friends."
Augustine of Hippo
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"The wounds of a friend are more trustworthy than the kisses of an enemy."
Augustine of Hippo
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"If we do not forget our old friends when we make new ones, we shall be happy."
Mencius
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"Virtue is not a solitary thing; it must have friends."
Mencius
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"Nothing is so dear and pleasant as a friend."
Cicero
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"The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends."
Cicero
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"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery."
Cicero
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"Friendship is the most valuable thing in the world."
Cicero
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"Friendship is a treasure more valuable than all the gold hoarded by tyrants."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"A meal of bread and water with a friend tastes sweeter than a banquet shared with envy."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"To give a friend a gift is to give yourself the pleasure twice over."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"A single friend in truth is worth a thousand in pretense."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"The debt of friendship cannot be repaid, only honored through continued kindness."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"The sweetest conversation is not one where all agree but one where all listen."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."
Seneca
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"The greatest poverty is want of friends."
Seneca
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"In friendship, as in all things, integrity is essential."
Mencius
"A true friend is one soul in two bodies"
Thales of Miletus
"Misfortune shows those that are not our friends"
Thales of Miletus
"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them"
Thales of Miletus
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"Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors."
Confucius
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"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."
Confucius