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The following quotations remind us of the value and the power of genuine friendship.

About Friendship…

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Aristotle

"There is no wilderness like a life without friends."
Baltasar Gracián

"The real friend is another self."
Cicero

"Of all the things that wisdom provides to make life happy, by far the greatest is friendship."
Epicurus

A Friend Is

"Good friends are like shock absorbers. They help you take the lumps and bumps on the road of life."
Frank Tyger

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
Anaïs Nin

"I can trust my friends. . . . These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow."
Cher

"The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for one another’s little lapses."
David Storey

"Best friend, my wellspring in the wilderness!"
George Eliot

How We Should Treat Our Friends

"In order to have friends, you must first be one."
Elbert Hubbard

"We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us."
Aristotle

"To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty."
Ba‘al Shem Tov

"When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
Edgar Watson Howe

"A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure."
Louisa May Alcott

Old Friends Are Made to be Kept and Treasured

"As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful."
Cicero

"There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one."
Elmer G. Leterman

"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.’
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Old friends are the great blessing of one’s later years. They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking."
Horace Walpole

And Finally

"Friends are the sunshine of life."
John Hay

 

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