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Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.Collection: Friends
We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.Collection: Friends
Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale; Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart; Let not the spirit of its growth depart: It is a power to brave the strongest gale.Collection: Friends
There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.Collection: Friends
PROMISE YOURSELF To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.Collection: Friends
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.Collection: Friends
It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.Collection: Friends
Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.Collection: Friends
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.Collection: Friends
Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting.Collection: Friends
Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.Collection: Friends
Life, for me, is living among my friends.Collection: Friends
Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.Collection: Friends
My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.Collection: Friends
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.Collection: Friends
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.Collection: Friends
About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter."Collection: Friends
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.Collection: Friends
Never speak ill of an absent friend.Collection: Friends
The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.Collection: Friends
The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.Collection: Friends
Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.Collection: Friends
True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.Collection: Friends
Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.Collection: Friends
Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.Collection: Friends
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.Collection: Friends
Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.Collection: Friends
Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect of business. It's the essence of happiness, the full realization of your potential for joy.Collection: Friends
Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.Collection: Friends
A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.Collection: Friends
The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.Collection: Friends
However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.Collection: Friends
Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.Collection: Friends
There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.Collection: Friends
I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally.Collection: Friends
Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.Collection: Friends
The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.Collection: Friends
At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.Collection: Friends
I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.Collection: Friends
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.Collection: Friends
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.Collection: Friends
Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.Collection: Friends
But just because you’re strong and resilient doesn’t mean you never need someone to be there for you, to take care of you.Collection: Friends
And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that upCollection: Friends
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.Collection: Friends
The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.Collection: Friends
Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.Collection: Friends